Sunday, March 1, 2009

His Dark Materials Redesign

Redesigned His Dark Materials trilogy covers to look like classic Penguin Books.

29 comments:

  1. Once again. Amazing work. Any plans to do The Chronicles of Narnia?

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  2. Actually those are already in the works. :)

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  3. Love these--and looking forward to the Narnia covers.

    You've got me wondering what the first HDM book would look like with the alternate title (The Golden Compass). But I do love the bear you have here with his armor.

    Parker P

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  4. Ooh! Fantastic! I like your cover for The Subtle Knife best :)

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  5. Oh these are so wonderful. I am heartbroken that you won't be able to make prints. Any plans to make alternate covers for the Dark is Rising books?

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  6. Haven't read those, but I'm open to it.

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  7. Really great. love the repeating bar theme.

    It would be funny to do book covers based on the book title jokes like:

    # The French Chef
    by Sue Flay

    # Tight Situation
    by Leah Tard

    # Unemployed
    by Anita Job

    # Off to Market
    by Tobias A. Pigg

    # I Lived in Detroit
    by Helen Earth

    # Inflammation, Please
    by Arthur Itis

    # Handel's Messiah
    by Ollie Luyah


    and on and on. I'm sure you know many...

    keep up the great work and hopefully they will publish them.

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  8. Ooo, that's clever. I may just have to do that.

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  9. Love the Dark Materials stuff.

    Would like to see you tackle a Terry Pratchett book!

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  10. Amazing!

    I love "His Dark Materials"

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  11. Just discovered your site, I love your art and your book designs! Amazing work!

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  12. The whole Penguin style book/movie/video game redesigns are getting really tired now

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  13. totally love your work, i find it amazing. too bad i won't find your covers in italy!

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  14. so, no go on the harry potter prints...but how bout these?

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  15. These are awesome!!

    I quite love them, the HP ones now being my desktop.

    I'm looking forward to Narnia, and would love to see Lord of the Rings. These covers actually remind me a lot of the original covers, like this:
    http://www.theonering.com/images2-120/TheTwoTowersCoverArt

    though I'd love to see what you'd come up with :)

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  16. I see you had some problems with selling the prints of your HP redesign, does that mean no prints of theses covers ether?

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  17. Since I was asked not to print the HPcovers due to infringes with rights/etc. I probably won't attempt printing the HDM or any other series I make, too much trouble really.

    But thanks for the Interest.

    I'm on book 4 of Narnia so keep checking back.

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  18. Like the penguin stuff, how about trying Lord of the Rings?

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  19. Awesome Work!
    Would love to see some book-covers for a couple of HP-Lovecrafts tales !

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  20. Would you consider uploading some of your covers in bigger and better solutions, so we can print them ourselfs??!

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  21. Ha I just signed up to Flickr to badger you about prints. Can I second what the other guy said and implore you to make these available for adoring fans to have. I'd love some of these on my wall. :) :) :)

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  22. Absolutely love them! The first one is especially elegant.

    (Can't wait for the Narnia covers!)

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  23. Oooh, Narnia. My husband wants to see you do the Oz books. But there are 14 or 40 of those, depending on which definition you use...

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  24. I enjoyed all of your covers of series books, but your Subtle Knife is one of my favorites, I think.I'm amazed by the way you manage, with such simple lines and dots, to convey the knife cutting from one universe to the next.

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  25. I'm looking forward to the Narnia books. Have you considered doing covers for the two small HDM related tales, Lyra's Oxford and Once Upon a Time in the North? That would be a nice addition ( third one for Will is in the works and another collection called The Book of Dust is coming as well).

    Thanks for the coolness.

    - Christian

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  26. I know about those other two HDM books, I just haven't gotten around to reading them yet... perhaps eventually.

    I'm almost done reading the last Narnia book, so soon I will be able to finish up those covers!

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  27. Amazing covers. I love your style.

    In fact, I like it so much I want to find out how you created the slightly distress/vintage look. It's very subtle, yet so effective.

    A tip would make me a very happy camper :-)

    Keep up the amazing work!

    -Owen

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  28. I love these - by far my favourite of your 'penguin' book cover designs. Shame you can't make prints of them.

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  29. These are definitely different. I love the pictures but it really makes you think.
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