5/20/11
New Faulkners
We've freshened up our William Faulkner backlist. First six about to go to printer. There will be 20 in all. Lots of southern photography, William Eggleston and the like. Lettering by Jon Contino. The ebooks appear to have the new covers—whatever that is worth.
5/19/11
Blog Fodder Friday
LP inserts
Another great Gary Shteyngart book trailer.
Steve Albini has a food blog. Steve Albini!?
While we're at it, the Vegan Black Metal Chef
This website must have been seriously hard to program.
Somebody already owns this domain name.
Also. I'm looking for anything interesting being done in ebook/epub for ipad. More experimental the better. Post below or email me: jgall@randomhouse.com. Not looking for inspiration or to steal ideas or anything like that.
Finally, what it's all come down to: moustaches.
5/16/11
From the Killed Covers Show
Some of the work was reproduced in the Book Review this past Sunday.
I will repost the Charles Yu post when I get a chance to REWRITE IT. Thanks Blogger!
5/14/11
The New Yu
This is the hard cover jacket I designed about a year ago for Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. I really liked this cover. Art by Benbo George.
It made it so far as to be included on the bound galley. At the last minute it was killed and replaced with the UK jacket (seen below). Note to cover design novices: if you are ever in a meeting and someone says "Have you seen the UK jacket?" you know you are in trouble.
As baffling as it was at the time, I can see the point. The toy raygun approach may not have been the best solution, and is a cliche wrapped inside of a cliche, more accessible approach was needed. The novel is about a guy who fixes time travel machines and ends up getting caught in a time loop. He is in love with his computer's sexy voiced operating system and he has a pet dog. It's also a great book.
For paperback here is my bid for a wider pop audience. Die cut/step back cover, silver ink, a ton of wonderful quotes and a dog in a space suit. What more could one want? Cover illustration by our own Peter Quach.
4/28/11
dreamlike, insane
Rodrigo Corral's gorgeous new redesign for the paperback of Chuck Palahniuk's novel Tell-All. Rodrigo did original jacket as well.
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.4/26/11
Killed Covers
Show coming to the New York Times gallery. Opening May 12.
I'm curious which of my submissions will be included. Whatever is not on view I will display here as Killed Killed Covers.
4/19/11
30 Posters 30 Days
From the folks who brought us National Novel Writing Month and the 30 Covers in 30 Days event, we now have the script writing equivalent with the movie posters to match.
4/7/11
Guest Contributor: Fred Free
For those of you who don't know Fred Free, you are in for a real treat. Fred is one of the finest collage artists working today. You can see a sampling of his amazing work here, here and here. In addition, he has recently started a curated art blog called Variety Showcase.
Fred also knows his way around a library book sale. This week he pairs up some of his recent finds. Enjoy!
4/1/11
3/30/11
3/29/11
Mobsourcing
With all this talk about crowdsourcing and mobsourcing and what have you—yes, we've had a number of authors suggest their covers should be crowdsourced—I present the only known (as far as I know) piece of graphic design truly created by the mob. The real mob. Found in NYC sometime in the 1990s.
3/28/11
3/24/11
Vintage James M. Cain
Our spectacular new designs for James M. Cain.
Conceived by Megan Wilson.
Executed by Evan Gaffney.
They should be out this Spring.
HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce" starts this Sunday.
3/22/11
Contest #2
Name the designer, win the book. Clues to be supplied as needed. And no internet cheating.
I'll throw in one of these too (folded).
Clue #3
3/18/11
Blog Fodder Friday
The first three found through Coudal's Museum of Online Museums.
Cambodian pulp novels
Mesmerizing: Sleeping Shepherd Boy
And yes: Shit Churches
Finally: Girls Making Gun Sounds. Thanks Cardon !
3/17/11
ebay art
A few weeks ago my "Random Stuff" post got me searching for another old folder of mine. This folder dates from 2001(!) and it contains images taken from ebay. I was convinced, at the time, that the photos people took of the stuff they were selling on ebay would be the next great source of "found photography". In retrospect, three things have become apparent. 1. Almost any photo of a prosthetic device or doll part looks like "art". 2. I spent way too much time trolling ebay for wigs and underwear. 3. The next great source of "found photography" is obviously Google Street View.
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