Day 242 - New trend: Bookface yourself

You like books?
You like book covers?

May be you should join the 'bookface' trend.

How it works? Simple.
1 - Pick a bookcover with a face on it.
2 - Hold it in front of your face
3 - Take a photo.

Your bookface is ready and can be send to getbookfaced@gmail.com

Here are some examples (source: http://boekface.wordpress.com)

Day 182 - Graphic design: Creative and tasty Sandwich Book

Graphic designer Pawel Piotrowski (Poland) designed a very tasty book... a book you almost want to eat...

The pages of the so-called Sandwich Book look like a realistic and tasty sandwich: lettuce, tomato, chess, egg, meat...

Have a nice meal!

By the way, Pawl is still looking for a publisher.
Contact him if you like this book and want to help him.

Day 178: Anthon Beeke, it's a miracle - exhibition and book give an overview of 50 years of graphic design

Next sunday is the opening of the exhibition 'It's a miracle' at Galerie Piet Hein Eek.
The exhibition gives an overview of the work of Dutch graphic designer Anthoon Beeke.

At the same time a book will appear. This book, that has the same title as the exhibition, tells the story of his life and designs. The book includes contributions of Lidewij Edelkoort, Erwin Olaf, Erik Kessels and many others.

Exhibition:
Piet Hein Eek Galery, Eindhoven

Book:
For sale at BIS Publishers

Day 86 - Bookcovers or bookalikes

One week ago a Dutch newspaper, called De Volkskant, published an article on bookcovers.

The title of this article was 'Bookalikes'. This refers to the fact that publishers often use the same type of illustration for bookcovers.

The photos below were published in De Volkskrant.

Day 14 - The visual evolution of 100 famous logos

Dutch designer Ron van der Vlugt collected 100 logos and describes their history in his book LOGO LIFE.

Each chapter describes the history and evolution of a specific logo / brand, such as Apple, KLM, BMW and WWF.

Here are two examples:

Preview Logo Life at issue.com