Penguin Decades. Classic penguins from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s with covers illustrated by Peter Blake, Allen Jones, Zandra Rhodes and John Squire.
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The Art of Penguin Science Fiction
The Art of Penguin Science Fiction. Fantastic collection of Penguin science fiction covers from 1935 onwards.
Connected: Penguin, Max Huber, Counter Print
- Penguin by Illustrators – The follow up to Penguin by Designers. Available from The Penguin Collector’s Society.
- The latest IDEA magazine has a special feature on iconic Swiss graphic designer Max Huber.
- Just discovered Counter Print who specialise in out of print and hard to find art and design books. I was just to late to pick up this copy of Cambridge New Architecture. If anyone’s got a copy they want to sell…
Classic 'Pelican' albums
LittlePixel’s Flickr set of ‘classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books’.
Penguin sets
I’ve just come across these fantastic Penguin sets. A collection of thirteen author and series sets with limited edition posters including a fantastic HG Wells collection, the gothic ‘Ten tales of the Supernatural‘ collection and George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm set with a poster by Shepard Fairey which unfortunately has already sold out. That’ll teach me to pay more attention!
Connected: 02.05.08
- The Memory Project – Interactive digital photography project that records 360° panoramas each minute for three days. It’s immersive in that heat sensors allow visitors to control which images are shown in the ‘time-slip gallery’. There’s some video over at the BBC.
- Nice looking Penguin Classics theme for Tumblr
- We tell stories – Penguin’s digital writing project showcasing six stories especially written for the Internet. What’s cool is that these are not just stories but interactive experiences put together in collaboration with alternate reality game (ARG) designers Six to Start.
Connected: 23.01.08
- Black Slabbath – Aptly named typeface from YouWorkForThem
- The Pelican Project – Nice collection of Pelican covers from the 30’s onward, via Things Magazine