AbeBooks: Penguin's Science Fiction: One of the many reasons Penguin has been so successful over the years involves its history of creating fantastic book covers. Penguin also boast a stellar track record in publishing meaningful titles, but let's be honest: the books look good. Even the iconic bands of color framing a white block that have come to define Penguin were a stroke of design genius, and are now quite widely fetishized on everything from notepads to luggage tags by booklovers worldwide.
Friday, June 12, 2015
Penguin's Science Fiction Covers
AbeBooks: Penguin's Science Fiction: One of the many reasons Penguin has been so successful over the years involves its history of creating fantastic book covers. Penguin also boast a stellar track record in publishing meaningful titles, but let's be honest: the books look good. Even the iconic bands of color framing a white block that have come to define Penguin were a stroke of design genius, and are now quite widely fetishized on everything from notepads to luggage tags by booklovers worldwide.
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If you're (not you,Bill) going to do a feature on book cover art, wouldn't you think it appropriate to credit the cover artists? Would you do a feature with examples of great writing without bothering to credit the authors? This gets me hacked off every time I encounter it, and ABE is one of the worst offenders. Admittedly sometimes the artist credit or signature is not available, but here, if you check the bookseller listings at least some of the sellers provide artist credits. J. Kingston Pierce does cover art features like they ought to be done.
Art Scott
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