
University of the Arts grad Jim Tierney designed four beautiful looking Jules Verne book covers for his senior thesis project. Check out some video of the books and his personal site here.
Via Design Observer.

Pictoplasma, a Berlin-based organization devoted to the art of character design, recently published a lengthy 328 page book all about character design and art. Read More.

A while ago, for its 60th anniversary, Penguin Classics published its beautifully designed ‘Great Ideas’ series. Divided into five installments (philosophy, politics, science, etc.), the fifth is to be released this year. Read More.

This project (’Unscannable Books‘) was created in response to, “the destructive method of book scanning…

Great resource of book covers for you design nerds doing some cover artwork, or, just looking for some design inspiration.
Check out the website here.

Awesome promo done by the 4th Estate to commemorate their 25th anniversary. Apt Studio helped them pull it together, using over 1000 books in the making.
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Ikonica: A Field Guide to Canada’s Brandscape
This is a great book by Jeanette Hanna and Alan Middleton that documents the history of some of the most well-known Canadian brands. Some you might recognize, some may come as a surprise. Check it out. The book design is pretty tight too.

Video of a pop-up book of the alphabet. Read More.