The Design Observer Group has become one of my favorite blogs. Period. Authored by some truly intelligent and talented people, the posts of the DOG blog are always as insightful as they are visually stunning. While doing my daily industry reading via my Google reader, I read John Gall’s (art director for Vintage and Anchor Books) post about redesigning the book covers of Vladimir Nabokov. Nothing makes Christina happier than a combination of graphic design and dead Russian writers!
Gall’s project:
“Every so often, a dream project lands on your desk. Here’s one: redesign Vladimir Nabokov’s book covers. All twenty-one of them. Let me rephrase. Every so often the most daunting project of your entire life arrives on your desk.”
The following are two of my favorite covers from the complete series:
How I found Gall’s post or more aptly, how I was introduced to the DOG blog:
The Short of It: Me-> Daily Industry Reading Via Google Reader-> RSS Feed from D.O.G. Blog-> Gall’s Post.
The Long of It: Joy Olivia Miller, a former of colleague of mine at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , posted an article by the D.O.G. on her tumble blog which showed up in my Facebook Newsfeed. After reading the article in the notes section of her profile, I then spent some time on the D.O.G. website. I fell in love, added the RSS feed to my Google reader and now read the writers’ brilliant posts from the comfort of my RSS reader via my iPhone.
And this, my friends, is the art of citing your sources.
-Posted by Christina D.
