BFI Film Classics

The BFI (British Film Institute) Film Classics series are an ongoing library of shortish but alarmingly expensive (£11 for 72 pages!) books, each about specific movies. They normally have pleasant but staid covers with a still from the film:

But for the series' 20th anniversary, a number of talented artists were commissioned to create new cover designs riffing on the visual legacies of the films.

Design by Eda Akaltun

Design/sculpture by Su Blackwell

Design by Eric Skillman (briefly considered here)

Cover by Nick Morley (who I interviewed here)

Design by Marc Atkins

Design by Mark Swan (another of his covers is here)

Design by Cristiana Couceiro

Design by Louise Weir

Design by Benio Urbanowicz

Design by Chloe Giordano

Design by Paul Pope

Design by Andy Bridge

Experiments with Experimental Manga

..and, very briefly, while I'm linking elsewhere, Eric Skillman talks interestingly (to design tragics, anyway) about the best ways of fitting type and great illustration together as he works to create a series design for a new series of manga compendia coming soonish from Top Shelf.

The final cover design:



Some of the variations considered along the way:






While we're looking at Top Shelf, here are some particularly eye-catching covers from their list of forthcoming releases.