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A collection of gorgeous book cover designs

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 06:24 PM PDT

It is really hard to graphically give an idea of a book and make it visually attractive. I’ve been searching for book covers that achieve this, you can see what I found in this post.

The Gettysburg address, designed by David Pearson.

Czechoslovakian book cover, 1954. Via Flickr.

A great cover for the Great Gatsby. Via Boheme Extreme.

Kant & Phenomenology. A book cover by Isaac Tobin for the University of Chicago Press.

A Monster’s Notes. Via The Book Design Review.

Quarrel & Quandary, a minimalistic typographic cover.

Ernest Hemingway book cover illustrated. Via Flickr.

The Kiss of Anton Chekhov, designed by Darren Haggar.


Sprite Cow: CSS sprites made easy

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 06:16 PM PDT

Creating CSS sprites is a quite boring and time-consuming task, CSS Cow finally makes it much easier to use sprites in your web designs. This tool was created and published by The Team, a UK based design and communication agency.

To use it, simply open your image in CSS Cow, then select the parts of the images you want and generate the CSS for it.


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