..and another upcoming (RED) cover has leaked. If this isn't the work of Harland Miller, then I'll buy a hat and eat it.
Showing posts with label Harland Miller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harland Miller. Show all posts
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
More Penguin Food
Some more of the Penguin Great Food series (first shown here)...
..and another upcoming (RED) cover has leaked. If this isn't the work of Harland Miller, then I'll buy a hat and eat it.
..and another upcoming (RED) cover has leaked. If this isn't the work of Harland Miller, then I'll buy a hat and eat it.
Sunday, 3 May 2009
Poe Facelift
Late last year I previewed the cover of an imminent Edgar Allan Poe collection from penguin.
See that post for the background to the cover, but in brief it's a collage by Richard Hamilton, altered by Harland Miller, with text cut-ups provided by Stefanie Posavec. And I really like it.
Now, though, that Poe book seems to have been given a facelift, and it will look like this:
The art is now one of Harland Miller's oil paintings derived from old Penguin covers.
Another, much funnier, example is this:
I do like Miller's Penguin paintings, but this particular use as a cover doesn't seem to be that inspired, especially compared with what they already had. I'd be interested to know what inspired the change.
Miller, by the way, is also a talented writer. His Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty is an amusing novel, and he also wrote First I Was Afraid, I Was Petrified, a novella about suffering obsessive-compulsive disorder, illustrated with found photographs of stove knobs set to 'off'.
More of Miller's Penguin paintings can be found in his collection International Lonely Guy.
See that post for the background to the cover, but in brief it's a collage by Richard Hamilton, altered by Harland Miller, with text cut-ups provided by Stefanie Posavec. And I really like it.
Now, though, that Poe book seems to have been given a facelift, and it will look like this:
The art is now one of Harland Miller's oil paintings derived from old Penguin covers.
Another, much funnier, example is this:
I do like Miller's Penguin paintings, but this particular use as a cover doesn't seem to be that inspired, especially compared with what they already had. I'd be interested to know what inspired the change.
Miller, by the way, is also a talented writer. His Slow Down Arthur, Stick to Thirty is an amusing novel, and he also wrote First I Was Afraid, I Was Petrified, a novella about suffering obsessive-compulsive disorder, illustrated with found photographs of stove knobs set to 'off'.
More of Miller's Penguin paintings can be found in his collection International Lonely Guy.
Friday, 5 December 2008
Poe!
Early next year Penguin UK is putting out a Peter Ackroyd-edited collection of Edgar Allan Poe short stories, with a very unconventional and really cool collage cover.
I love the way that even the Penguin Classics branding uses cut-up bits of old Penguin designs: a 1970s Modern Classics logo, a 1990s 'Penguin Classics' bit of type, and the author's name from the newest 2000s Classics type.
I don't yet know who did this, but big praise to whoever is responsible.
UPDATE: Designer Stefanie Posavec write to say that she provided the cut-up Penguin bits, and the original collage (see below) was altered by Harland Miller.
Also, if you ever see that film of 'The Black Cat', the poster of which decorates the wall in that collage, you're in for 65 minutes of serious bonkersness.
UPDATE: Super-star JonathanM of the Bookseller Crow points out what I was too stupid to realise, which is that this is a Poe-ised modification of Richard Hamilton's 'Just What Is It that Makes
Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?'.
I love the way that even the Penguin Classics branding uses cut-up bits of old Penguin designs: a 1970s Modern Classics logo, a 1990s 'Penguin Classics' bit of type, and the author's name from the newest 2000s Classics type.
UPDATE: Designer Stefanie Posavec write to say that she provided the cut-up Penguin bits, and the original collage (see below) was altered by Harland Miller.
Also, if you ever see that film of 'The Black Cat', the poster of which decorates the wall in that collage, you're in for 65 minutes of serious bonkersness.
UPDATE: Super-star JonathanM of the Bookseller Crow points out what I was too stupid to realise, which is that this is a Poe-ised modification of Richard Hamilton's 'Just What Is It that Makes
Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?'.
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