September 26, 2010

Origins of the Portuguese Paper Fetish

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12 comments:

  1. These are wonderful! ...the art of book covers: why is it dying?

    (My favourite is 'Roteiro Africano' because of the angle and colours, followed by the Gide.)

    [and I just noticed you have covers from more countries!]

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  2. Thanks for sharing these beautiful covers from my country. It makes me really sad to go to a book store nowadays and see shelf after shelf of books riddled with stock photography, special metallic inks, varnish and so forward in a bundled mess instead of getting back to basics and creating a truly original piece of art based on great concepts, great illustrations, cutting the price down for the consumer instead of boosting it with superfluous graphic thingamajigs.

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  3. Great covers, Will. Thanks for posting!
    Pacze Moj's question "the art of book covers: why is it dying?" is interesting. Why and is it dying? But I won't get into it right now. ;)

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  4. Dear Pacze Moj,

    you are talking about «Colecção europa-américa» and «Livros do Brasil»? they are portuguese publishers.

    all the best,
    granja

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  5. As always, your blog brings forth the most amazing work!

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  6. Fantastic, as always. Jahsonic.

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  7. Gorgeous cover designs. I'm always inspired by your blog.

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  8. Thanks for another great post. I am in love with the Calvino covers!

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  9. Thank you so much for posting all of these! So beautiful and inspiring.

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  10. These are the most stunning graphics Ive seen in a long time. So glad I came across your site.

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  11. é simplesmente fantástico!!! Não há quem consiga imitar tamanhas obrasprimas... Parabéns à escolha... congratulations to the choice!

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