Amazing Nabokov Covers

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Check out these John Gall cover designs:
http://observatory.designobserver.com/slideshow.html?view=227&entry=11597&slide=1

I really like the one he did with Dave Eggers for “Laughter in the Dark”:

http://observatory.designobserver.com/slideshow.html?view=227&entry=11597&slide=11#slide

And “Pnin” and “The Luzhin Defense” and “Bend Sinister”:

http://observatory.designobserver.com/slideshow.html?view=227&entry=11597&slide=15

http://observatory.designobserver.com/slideshow.html?view=227&entry=11597&slide=13

http://observatory.designobserver.com/slideshow.html?view=227&entry=11597&slide=2

Ok, I going to stop before I post all the covers. The only one I don’t like is “Look at the Harlequins!”

I wish these would have been released in hardcover for Christmas gifts.

More on John Gall and covers:
http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEPMagazine/Article/28770/

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/the-reading-life-judging-books-by-their-covers/

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Wow, those are very beautiful. And they’re all done in a way that recalls Nabokov’s interest in lepidoptery, which is appropriate as well as attractive.

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Very cool. You realized you just nerded out on book covers right? :slight_smile: