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News & ArtsWednesday, March 17, 2010
Books Drooling Over the Classics
Posted by Cienna Madrid on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:39 PM
- via Third Place Blog
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I was a bit more impressed by the Tank Book cigarette box packaging (http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/tank-…) but all the classics deserve a makeover once in a while to remind us to read them.
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they make me want to have a library with walnut shelves, a rolling ladder and cracked leather chairs.
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I couldn't stop stroking them and cooing, like I do with puppies and apple peelers.
"There lives in that old house," the withered old woman muttered to the child, "one Miss Cienna Madrid, the Widow Mudede, the Widow Brissey, the Widow Humphrey, the Widow Steen, the Widow Constant, the Widow Savage and the Widow Frizzelle."
"But how can they fit so many widows in one home?"
"A riddle, to be sure, but easily answered when you realize they're all one in the same. And really, it'd be a shame to be her, such as she is, stricken with an eternal sadness over the surreal deaths of all her previous suitors, men who'd have never marry a woman and those who'd never marry one such as she, all stricken in the same unbelievable manner as the others with their skin unfurled like bandages and made to run the length of Broadway, a vaguely humanoid mass of meat at one end and an apple peeler at the other."
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Cienna,
Good on you for being the classic bibliophile with sense of the aesthetic. Those books look awesome. I have a growing library of canonical literature, much of what I have indeed read (some examples are, Picture of Dorian Grey, The Illiad, The Odyssey, Brideshead Revisted, Steppenwolf, Candide, Don Quixote, The Stranger, Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick). I would have loved to have them traditionally bound (cloth?). Great stuff.
Good on you for being the classic bibliophile with sense of the aesthetic. Those books look awesome. I have a growing library of canonical literature, much of what I have indeed read (some examples are, Picture of Dorian Grey, The Illiad, The Odyssey, Brideshead Revisted, Steppenwolf, Candide, Don Quixote, The Stranger, Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick). I would have loved to have them traditionally bound (cloth?). Great stuff.
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These are gorgeous, and I salute Penguin's commitment to its great heritage of book cover design. I'll still always prefer the paperback classics, with their famous orange layout. I still pick those up when I see them.
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the books are very well done, but they need to step outside of the lowest common denominator box. i own at least 1 copy (probably more like 2 on average) of everything they have in these editions already.
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You know, Paul (oops... Cienna), you could obtain much the same frisson by going to Jo-Anne Fabrics and fingering the bolts of cloth. And have money left in your pocket for puppy peelers or apples or something.
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They've been featured on www.designspongeonline.com a couple of times. You're right, they're absolutely gorgeous.
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I like a pretty book cover as much as the next person, but what I really care about is the quality of the paper the words are printed on. I hate how easy it is to find a classic book printed on cheap pulpy paper. It's a tactile thing. Gross. :(
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Stupid fucking Penguin classic.
HOW MANY GODDAMN COPIES OF OLIVER TWIST DOES ONE WOMAN NEED? HOW MANY? WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END?
Next round they'll combine their 60's revival covers with the cloth and do some sort of amazing typeface and someone will find me curled up in a ball on my kitchen floor, laying on a pile of ripped up bills.
HOW MANY GODDAMN COPIES OF OLIVER TWIST DOES ONE WOMAN NEED? HOW MANY? WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END?
Next round they'll combine their 60's revival covers with the cloth and do some sort of amazing typeface and someone will find me curled up in a ball on my kitchen floor, laying on a pile of ripped up bills.
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