Book Covers Design

Covers is dedicated to the appreciation of book cover design. We update several times a week. Save for the occasional guest editor, this blog is updated and maintained by Fwis, a design firm based out of Brooklyn, NY and Portland, OR.

Let us know if you have a cover that merits posting. If possible, be sure and credit the designer. Also, please be sure and include a link to the cover, or email us an attachment.

A tribute to the artist Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

Published: May 14, 2008

The irrepressibly prolific artist, who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night.

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Diesel Walls 2008: Open for entries now

Diesel Wall is an international art contest that aims to bring intriguing/inspiring/insightful/inciting contemporary ideas to giant urban canvases in city centres around the world.
Zurich Wall Shortlist announced:
The final stage of the selection has arrived. The Judges have gone through all the submissions and have selected 12 proposals for the final shortlist. They are now diligently discussing these finalists, and a winner will be announced on the 15th of May. To see the shortlist check here: www.diesel.com/cult/wall/zurich/shortlist

Stefan G. Bucher's Daily Monster

Click here to check out all the Daily Monster video clips, along with
the brilliant stories about each creature submitted by viewers
from all over the world. And hey, if you're feeling inspired, I'd love it
if you'd add a few stories of your own.

the font publisher Die Gestalten

The Gestalten blackboard is the marketplace to see what others are up to and a place for you to post information about your exhibitions, websites and projects that you want to share with us and other.

But please do keep the topics related to graphic design and visual culture!


Gestalten specializes in developing content for aficionados of cutting-edge visual culture worldwide.

The company is best known for the more than two hundred fifty books we have published that document and anticipate vital design movements for our own title list as well as customer publishing projects.

Gestalten also provides curation, art direction, consulting, production, distribution and design services to international clients such as Volkswagen and Diesel.

Always working directly with talented young designers and artists, Gestalten brings a deep understanding of visual culture on a global level to whatever we do and remains firmly committed to presenting visual trends with timeless substance.

United Bamboo is a label and a lifestyle

Launched in 1998 and now expanded into a cultural project, United Bamboo has established itself as a pioneer in fashion design and creative collaboration with downtown artists, curators and musicians under the direction of Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham. Launched by Miho Aoki who moved from her native Japan to study at FIT in 1995, she was formerly a design assistant at the New York based fashion/art collective, Bernadette Corp. Thuy Pham, a native of Vietnam, was the designer for Bernadette Corp. As United Bamboo they continue to expand their conceptual reach through collaborations with a diverse community of artists. Multidimensional in scope, and focused on fostering the new and experimental, United Bamboo’s revisioning of classic American sportswear embodies this spirit as demonstrated in their runway debut in New York for Fall 2004. Read more...

Creativity Now Conference Speakers Announced!

Tokion Magazine is proud to announce the speakers participating in this years Creativity Now Conference.

The word “tokion” is translated from the Japanese, meaning "the sound of now" -- who better then to present a symposium bringing together top figures in art, design, fashion, photography, film, new media, publishing and marketing to discuss the cultural zeitgeist.

Please visit www.tokion.com/creativitynow for speaker updates and to purchase tickets.