Penguin Classics team up with (RED) for typographic covers

These book covers from Penguin are simply stunning - they work well as a set, yet retain their own identities and I love the way the designs creep out onto the lower banner.

It's a collaboration between Penguin and AIDS awareness fund (RED) and a team of designers to produce new covers for eight Penguin Classics. Each cover replaces the usual black band with red, employing a quote from the text of the book as the visual hit.

Wonderful work as ever from Penguin.

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Quantum of Solace

The film didn't do it for me, but this book cover, designed by Angus Hyland and Fabian Herrmann of Pentagram, is undoubtedly uber-stylish.

The book is a collection of Ian Fleming’s Bond short stories (bound in a single volume for the first time) and includes stories that inspired the Bond film classics From a View to a Kill, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, The Living Daylights and of course, Quantum of Solace, the latest in the series.

More beautiful work from Pentagram here

Design your own book cover

A nice idea from Penguin to design your own book cover for one of their Penguin classics.

Examples of other people's designs can be seen here.