Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris has been made into two films, one by Andrai Tarkovsky and the other by Stephen Soderbergh. Honestly, I cannot stand either one (though the Cliff Martinez score for the Soderbergh film is delightful).
The novel has been published in numerous languages in dozes of editions. The Hype & Hyper site has cataloged a ton of them. Wonderful to see how one title can inspire so many different interpretations.
Aussie Greg Neville shows and discusses his Penguin Books collection, with an emphasis on Series Design. For instance, here are some from the Modern Classics series, and Neville's thoughts on them.
Plenty more on the Penguin Series Design site.
Via Metafilter.
Spine Magazine is an online publication devoted to book cover design and book culture. I linked to them back in 2022 when they featured a Vonnegut special, but they're worth checking out at the root url.
Plenty of interviews with designers, authors, and illustrators, and of course, lots of gorgeous book covers, including early drafts and alternates.
Vyki Hendy
Things Magazine has compiled an archive of Pelican Book covers from the 1930s through the 1980s. I first found this archive back in 2008 and am delighted that it's still online.
The entire archive can be viewed on the Things Magazine website.
Yesterday would have been Kurt Vonnegut's 100th birthday. To celebrate, designer Alicia Raitt has re-imagined all 14 of Vonnegut’s book covers.
View the full gallery here.
Check out designer Alicia Raitt's site — she's the Founder and Creative Director of Milk & Bone Design.
