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A wise woman (my mother) asked me what was up with the vintage-looking Penguin cover that read “Go Away I’m Reading” in my last post. I always do as my mother tells me (right mom?…

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On this day in 1935 Penguin published its first books. Here are 20 inspirational Penguin covers: http://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design/penguin-covers-612338

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts." 📖Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep.

Early blue biography penguins.

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabéa's fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself, Clarice Lispector's audacious last novel is…

From 1947 to 1949 Jan Tschichold developed a set of design guidelines to help standardize Penguin Books. Image: Penguin Book cover design exploration by Jan Tschichold, 1948 Image source: David Pearson - Follow Design Facts on Twitter: twitter.com/DesignFacts

Paul Hogarth by William Smith in 1969 When I was a student at Cambridge Art School, Paul Hogarth RA (1917 – 2001), the famous reportage artist, was a visiting lecturer. He encouraged us to 'go out and draw' and 'use our eyes'. Good advice. It really hones your observational skills. Paul Hogarth was born in 1917 in Kendal, Cumbria. In 1923 his family and he moved to Manchester. He attended the Manchester School Of Art from 1934 to 1936, where he became involved in the Artists' International…

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