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Smiths Lyrics as Penguin Classic Book Covers

By Emily Temple on

If you’re anything like us, you’ve spent many an afternoon kicked back on your bed, listening to the plaintive tones of The Smiths and reading a tattered Penguin Classic, nodding fiercely at the injustice of the world. Even if not, we think you’ll probably be able to appreciate these excellent imagined book covers by Raid 71, aka Chris Thornley, which we spotted over at Creative Bloq. Thornley cherry-picks lyrics and turns them into book titles, dressing them up in that classic 60s Penguin iconography we all know so well. Click through to take a gander, and if you love them as much as we do, you can head on over to Hunting Bears to pick up a few of the illustrations in poster form. You know, to hang above your bed as you keep on reading the classics and listening to sad sack ’80s pop. … Read More

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A Sneak Peek at the New Deluxe Penguin Classics

By Emily Temple on

There’s something so refreshing about a good Penguin Classics redesign – or any quality book cover redesign for that matter, we’re not picky. We get to know the covers as we get to know the books, the one sometimes standing in for the other, so a redesign can often feel like a way to experience a classic work in a whole new way. Or maybe we just like it it’s just someone making art about our favorite books, which we also obviously enjoy. The always reliable Caustic Cover Critic has tipped us off to two new installments in the Penguin Deluxe Classics graphic series, as well as three new covers from something called “Penguin Threads”, which looks to be this year’s answer to the publishing house’s 75th Anniversary Penguin Ink collection. Click through to check them out and let us know which ones you’ll be buying in the comments! … Read More