Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Spiderwick Redesign

Redesigned The Spiderwick book covers to look like classic Penguin Books.




21 comments:

  1. These are so wonderful! Great,strong images.I love your work.

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  2. All of these ideas HAVE To see the light of day. Have you pitched this stuff to penguin?

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  3. Not specifically, I have sent the Harry Potter ones to Scholastic, but that is it... Not entirely sure what I would say.

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  4. They are beyond beautiful. I would love to own this set (and the HP as well).

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  5. Holly Black? Spiderwick Holly Black. Wow if so. simply wow...

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  6. you are absolutely incredible!

    seriously. so much talent.

    low esteem. self motivation

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  7. Someone linked holly black on her liverjournal, the first response to this post: http://blackholly.livejournal.com/119863.html?nc=4

    If you wanted confirmation that it (most likely) is her XD

    Those (and your HP, lemony snickett, etc ones) are definitely gorgeous and SO much better than those "realistic" covers they do nowadays with a completely wrong version of the character. I hate having a human figure on the cover, your imagination and the author's words should be the only thing shaping what they look like.... anyway. xD

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  8. Delightful! You've been twittered by Globe and Mail Books, btw. :)

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  9. All of your book covers are SO cool, I love your ideas!

    (BTW, got here through Holly Black, she's made a whole post about this now! - http://blackholly.livejournal.com/120395.html)

    :).

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  10. Tony really loved the covers too. We were just talking about how awesome they are. Hope you don't mind me posting them on my blog.

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  11. Holly, I'm honored.
    Glad that you and Tony like them. It so odd having you see them, it's wonderful.

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  12. Uglies please! (For I am so very jealous.)

    More seriously, these produce such a great dose of nostalgia. I assume you've seen the new Popular Penguin releases in Australia, in classic orange and white livery?

    http://www.popularpenguins.com.au/

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  13. These are cool! I love the old vintage Penguin covers. I did one for their new Puffin relaunch which hearkened back to this style...

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  14. Wow Cool Tony.
    What book did you do for Puffin?

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  15. I just found your blog today and I wanted to say that I love your work!

    -Emma

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  16. I did a forward for "Peter Pan" and did the cover for "Dracula" which Hol did the forward to.

    Here's me yammering on about it:
    http://diterlizzi.com/blog/2008/09/01/diversion-2-a-darker-diversion/

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  18. great cover ... love the art work.. please check out bamboo made cutting boards you might find it interesting

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  19. By looking at these image its as if I'm seeing a picture in a picture. (3 dimension) I like it. coverup

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