Thursday, 15 January 2009

cute project: customised book covers


Penguin Classics had a huge success with its orange, black and white covers this year. (They even let you design your own cover. How very cool.) But wouldn't you rather see the classics looking like this? Image via The Names Agency

This idea is possibly only for people with lots and lots of time on their hands, but I do love it so. I have a thing about paperback books. Of course I buy them because you're not exactly going to get The Devil Wears Prada in a hard cover coffee-table style are you? But I don't like how they look: all weird colours and slightly different sizes and widths. Brown craft paper is a popular recovering option, but I love this one the most. If I had a spare three years to recover each and every novel, travel guide and dictionary with pretty paper and uniformed custom-made book labels, I so would.

Even though it's a highly impractical idea for your entire book collection (unless yours is, like, seven), it would work well to hide the really butt-ugly spines or hardcover books you'd like to use to bulk up your coffe-table display but just aren't pretty enough. Or just with a small collection you'd like to pop on a display shelf or buffet top.

But I could especially see it working as a gift. Say you bought your sister all of Candace Bushnell or Jodi Picoult's books as a collection - how much would she love unwrapping it and seeing the books looking like this? The hardest part would be getting the spine labels the right widths, but you could always cheat and do it the other way, in which case you'd have more room to work with. Oh and did I mention it'd be a GREAT thing to do with leftover wallpaper? Because it would. And I don't often mention wallpaper, do I??? Ha!

10 comments:

KH said...

Gorgeous, gorgeous idea!

Anonymous said...

I was in Borders Canberra the other day, and on the bottom shelf, underneath the orange, black and white Penguins, were some classics - Austen, Dickens, Bronte among others - covered with the most beautiful covers. All different, but in a similar style. Very much like the purple book second from the bottom there.

Anonymous said...

I was just thinking "a great idea for wallpaper" then I get to the bottom of your post :P Wallpaper addict!

Rosie said...

Oh gorgeous! Not all the books...but my husbands ugly engineering ones might be a good start! He may not be inclined to open them if I cover them in flowery paper though!

Jessica Jones said...

Very beautiful. Just stumbled upon your blog. Lovely! --Jess from How About Orange

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