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NaBoCoReMo

By JK Evanczuk on Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Is November also National Book Cover Redesign Month? NaBoCoReMo? Did nobody tell me?

Carin Goldberg’s iconic series design from the late 1980s has been replaced with an ostensibly hipper-looking one:

Vonnegut Series Cover RedesignArt director John Gall has also undertaken a book cover redesign project. The assignment: redesign Vladimir Nabokov’s entire book covers, all 21 of them. The result: 21 beautiful specimen boxes (a lovely homage to Nabokov’s passion for butterfly collecting), each created by a different designer:

Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov Book Cover RedesignGlory by Vladimir Nabokov Book Cover Redesign

And then here are some book covers you can accessorize with. Hand-stitched book cover handbags:

Moby Dick

This isn't really The Catcher in the Rye. It's a handbag.This isn't really For Whom the Bell Tolls. It's a handbag.

[Via Delicious, Maud Newton, and kottke.org.]

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