You must head over to Book Ninja and check out the results from the Book Recovering contest, where a number of folks took some well known pieces of literature, plus a few other assortments of published ephemera, and rebranded them through new cover designs. Of course this was often done in a deliciously subversive and ironic manner. The "recovered" version of Leonard Cohen's "Beautiful Losers" is awe inspiring to say the least!
I was so inspired that I had to design a one of my own. Here is my redesign for The Catcher In The Rye;
I think I will do a few more of these in the days to come. I would love to see some of the folks on my blogroll do the same if possible, so feel free to share your own mad creations of you feel inspired. ttfn
5 comments:
The Bookninja contest is closed, but consider entering your covers in the Guardian's contest?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/oct/29/publishing
Those are brilliant! I love a good subversive mind.
What fun! Some of those were grand. :)
Very clever!
How would you do 1984?
Rye not?
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