Design Remixes
I've been really into these kinds of "design remixes" lately. Most of them involve taking current, not very elegantly designed products and redoing them in such a way as to avoid modern design pratfalls, which, especially in the case of books, makes them look a lot like classic-era Penguin covers (which I love). I think part of the appeal for me, apart from the great design, is my love of sets. I've always been drawn to collections, especially when they look like they belong together. The image above is of the Harry Potter books, redesigned by M.S. Corley. The bottom two are from a set by Olly Moss that features some of my favorite old video games, re-imagined as books.
I've got a similar scheme worked up for a favorite set of mine. Will post when I complete the first ten.
Tags: helvetica, penguin, remix, sets
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7 Responses to “Design Remixes”
April 7th, 2009 at 5:19 PM
I love this.
April 28th, 2009 at 12:01 AM
[...] these days. So, armed with inspiration from what Olly Moss and others are doing (as written about by me here, and later by Kottke here) and a book of Blue Note Records covers, I set out to remake all 21. The [...]
April 29th, 2009 at 5:11 PM
[...] these days. So, armed with inspiration from what Olly Moss and others are doing (as written about by me here, and later by Kottke here) and a book of Blue Note Records covers, I set out to remake all [...]
May 6th, 2009 at 4:39 PM
These designs are wonderful and add a different element to HP as a whole. Well-done!
May 7th, 2009 at 6:35 AM
[...] pretty dated these days. So, armed with inspiration from what Olly Moss and others are doing (as written about by me here, and later by Kottke here) and a book of Blue Note Records covers, I set out to remake all [...]
May 14th, 2009 at 11:11 AM
[...] here’s a similar design remix project with the Harry Potter books by Logan Walters, which is [...]
June 2nd, 2009 at 10:29 PM
[...] these days. So, armed with inspiration from what Olly Moss and others are doing (as written about by me here, and later by Kottke here) and a book of Blue Note Records covers, I set out to remake all [...]
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