The Fault In Our Stars

After looking into incorporating text into my artwork i started to look at artwork that's completely based on text. The images below are all art created by fans of the books The Fault In Our Stars, and range from quick doodles to professional work. 

The book that was used for this work is famous for it's quotes both from others and those from the books itself, a lot of the artwork that's created for it comes from these quotes. I like the rough sketched style that both of these have they give a real sense of the work and reflect the styles that often seem to relate back to the book.  

The piece above is quick scribble that was created on paint and yet I like it because of that quick unfinished feel to it, it's simple and still reflect the sense it wants to.

This piece being on a more professional level clearly took more time and I really love the use of text in it combined with the small images scattered within the work that help to add to what's being expressed.

The Story of the Penguin Modern Classics

The Design Story of Modern Classics

1961 - 1965

From the very beginning the Modern Classics used striking and evocative imagery. The first
books had a design by Hans Schmoller, featuring Eric Gill's Joanna typeface.

1965 - 1989

Later the grid designed by Romek Marber for Penguin's crime books was introduced to the
 Modern Classics. The typeface remained Joanna at first, but eventually Helvetica was
 introduced to the series.

1989 - 2000

For a time beginning in the late 8Os the series was called Penguin Twentieth-Century
Classics, with a design that kept the author and title information in a panel, and set them 
in Sabon, a typeface designed by earlier Penguin design legend Jan Tschihold.

2000 - 2007

A cover template by Jamie Keenan was introduced in 2OOO that cons-trained the
type to a bar at the bottom of the cover. This allowed the imagery to be large and 
unobscured.

2007- present

And in 2OO7 the series was redesigned again with the current grid by Penguin Art
Director Jim Stoddart, which put big, bold text over the image itself and is now the 
basis for the design of the mini Modern Classics.

© 1995 - 2012 Penguin Books Ltd

Little Red Animation

Stop Motion Book Trailer

The Joy of Books

Studio Robin

Looking towards Pride and prejudice as my focus I've found the artists below who have done a lot of work that focuses on this story and have extended it past just cover art.


Pemberley Pond - Tumblr



The Pond



Studio Robin - Illustration

Covers

I think the best way of per suing the area of cover art is to focus on one or a few particular, well known stories to create the covers for, one that I'm considering is Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as it has been published over and over again with hundred of different covers.

Pride and Prejudice Covers