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Vintage Book Design in Poland. Vintage Book Design in Poland from the collection of hipopotam [website / blog] I had major help for this fourth post of Polish book covers: I pulled some from the book collection of my friends at hipopotam and some from a Polish antiquarian bookstore found by Peacay at BibliOdyssey [see his twitter feed].

Vintage Book Design in Poland

The rest were found at various online Polish bookstores. I'll be doing a lot more features with hipopotam this year. View all Polish design and illustration posts. The Book Cover Archive. Faceout Books. Chekhov SeriesAuthor: Anton ChekhovDesigner: Ben Wiseman while at Rodrigo Corral DesignArt Director: Albert TangPublisher: W.W.

Faceout Books

NortonTypeface: Custom YES! Ahab Edições. Inspiration: 50+ Vector-Based Book Covers. Vector artwork is everywhere these days, and book jackets are no exception.

Inspiration: 50+ Vector-Based Book Covers

Often striking in their simplicity, vector graphics and illustration can stand out in a sea of photo-based covers on the bookshelf. As I looked through cover designs of the past few years, certain themes emerged. I have identified four, which I'll call: Silhouettes, Pattern & Decoration, Abstraction and Type With A Twist. In addition, there are a few covers that feature beautiful full-on vector illustration. Havank mystery novels. Dick Bruna, who gave 'birth' to the famous character of Nijntje (Miffy), designed all of the above covers.

Havank mystery novels

His father was a publisher for the family company called Bruna, which published these 'Zwarte beertjes' series of books. Book design : Jules Verne. A Journey Round My Skull. It is a labyrinth.

A Journey Round My Skull

That’s what it is… a beautiful labyrinth. Words. Cover versions : un album. Tree of Codes by J.S. Foer.