I know that the re-designed book-covers that M S Corley did have been around for a while and that ffffound and dropular users are still moaning when then they pop up from time to time, but I had to put up a post about them if not just to satisfy my own torments. I also wanted to highlight them again because I feel that so much great design work that falls under the hooves of the galloping internet is overlooked all too quickly. We seem to be in the habit of channeling most things we see on the internet into the ‘yesterday’ bin at a remarkable speed.

Anyhow, I’m very envious of this set of work (in a polite way)… Not just because it’s represents clever and imaginative thought, but because it also represents a great era of penguin book cover design. In actual fact, it doesn’t just represent the era, it seems to act as a direct continuation of it. So accurate is the style, that the covers have rapidly attained a very unusual sense of familiarity. Take away the worn overlay treatment that has been applied and the graphic language still retains a sense of vintage placement.

Check out the full set on his flickr page and tell me you wouldn’t love to have the lot on your book shelf!