
Criminy--a picture's worth a thousand words, but how many book covers is that? War of the Worlds, which has been in print for over a hundred years, has spawned hundreds if not thousands of covers. Check out this site, where people from around the world with various versions of the book continue to e-mail cover shots in, adding to a compilation that keeps growing.
Seen en masse, it's essentially a look at how graphic design and illustration has evolved over the last 100 years.
MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2009
PICTOPIA FESTIVAL 2009
HOME AND HOUSEWARES SHOW 2009
TRANSVERSALE 2009
NEW YORK CITY TOY FAIR 2009
IMM COLOGNE INTERNATIONAL FURNISHING SHOW
NORTH AMERICAN INT'L AUTO SHOW '09
TOKYO DESIGN WEEK 2008
LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2008
NeoCon 2009
MD&M East and ATX 2009
Nidecker Snowboard Design Competition
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Comments
Nice post and a great archive site. I love that one from 1899, and also bizarrely the cheek of the one from 1978 with the starship Enterprise on the cover!
I did a similar exercise recently on George Orwell's 1984:
www.holster.co.uk/blog/the-look-of-1984
Book covers are a wonderful thing, let's hope they don't go the way of MP3s and we end up reading our books on a Kindle...
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