Lovely photo by Carlos JGM. The eagle eyed will notice that she is admiring Ferry Van Der Nat’s images in our Quite Frankly magazine!
Convulsing Bodies
Love the cover of this book Convulsing Bodies by Mark D. Jordan; design by Anne Jordan (Stanford University Press / October 2014).
‘Foucault was famously interested in Christianity as both the rival to ancient ethics and the parent of modern discipline and was always alert to the hypocrisy and the violence in churches. Yet many readers have ignored how central religion is to his thought, particularly with regard to human bodies and how they are shaped.’ – Stanford University Press
Via: Casual Optimist
Lolita-esque
Tampa, Alissa Nutting’s debut novel gives a jarring insight into the mind and methods of a conscience-free femme fatale.
Crime Series
A retrospective of work by graphic designer Romek Marber for Penguin books, The Economist, New Society, Town and Queen magazines, and others, is to be on show at the University of Brighton’s Theatre Gallery from 3rd March.
Querelle, Andy Warhol & Sex Parts
Andy Warhol’s poster design for Rainer Werber Fassbinder’s 1982 movie Querelle, based on Jean Genet’s book.
New York Times Best Book Covers
The New York Times feature what they consider to be the best book covers of 2013 – to be honest, I don’t think it’s the greatest list, but I shall show you eight of the twelve selected here:
Hunger
Four starkly elegant covers for the latest edition of Hunger magazine.
Via: The English Group
Story of a cover girl
Designer Sam Weber’s Oil on board portrait addressing Nabokov’s classic novel.