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Sharing Penguins

Over the past few years, we see Penguin Books coming up with covers that create significance in the world of design. One example is the cover design for Meditations, taken from the Great Ideas Series 1, designed by Phil Baines that swept neat a D&AD award. From the Great Ideas Series 1 & 2, down to the newly released Penguin Celebrations.

As shown below, stunningly beautiful, dressed up with Jan Tschichold’s legendary 3 stripes design. Orange for fiction, Pink for distant lands, Purple for viewpoints, Dark Blue for real lives, Light blue for great ideas and green for mystery. This amazing collection features some of the best books of that kind such as The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski for adventure & travel, How to be Good by Nick Hornby for fiction together with Sue Townsend’s Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction, etc. Check out their beautiful website here.

Another highlight thats worth to be displayed on the book shelf is definitely the Great Ideas Series 1 & Series 2 that has actually created a lot of attention in the design and type industry. I am a proud owner of about 22 copies out of the 40 copies of the entire series, just to share. Below are some take outs from series 2:

Moving on, we witness the Great Journeys series (which will trigger the ‘Marco Polo’ & ‘Christopher Columbus’ in us!). We here observe the beauty of duplication & repetition:

Then, the really beautiful & delicate touch on the front covers of the Great Loves series. Very elegant use of color and typeface. Using natural elements of mother nature with David Person’s traditional approach in creating the abstraction of the covers (scroll down here for the interview). I spotted this series in MPH at Mid Valley, amazingly stunning when viewed physically.

We also see the really interesting covers for Penguin Epics. This time, displaying mythical cliques and taking them to the next level by adding abstraction via modern approaches of graphic elements in the designs. Pay a little attention and you might realize that these designs are actually influenced by interpretations of each respective culture which concerns about the stories. I enjoyed the expressive type treatment.

All the books above are gloriously sized at 111 x 181mm, the ultimate.

(Also the ultimate 700 Penguins book covers for devoted Penguin cover hunters)

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