books/movies getting new 'modern' artwork - C/D

a movie eg -

it came from outer space original poster -
http://lmhs61.org/images/remember/Movie%20Posters/IT%20Came%20From%20Outer%20Space%201953.jpg

the dvd design -
http://www.monsterlandtoys.com/video/It%20Came%20From%20Outer%20Space.gif

obv i know posters and dvd jackets arent the same but well, it wouldnt hurt to have them more similar.

that's pretty dreadful, but total redesigns can be great - check out these new editions of sci-fi classics from gollancz:

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/april/low-fi-sci-fi

Those are cool. Who's the publisher that has been reprinting a bunch of literary classics with covers by comix artists?

If Criterion is reissuing something,it usually turns out beautiful.

Jaymc- I think it's Penguin? I know I've seen Candide by Chris Ware, Frankenstein by Dan Clowes, The Dharma Bums by Jason, and Auster's New York trilogy by Art Spiegelman. And Gravity's Rainbow by Frank Miller, who seems to have missed the point.

Agreed re: Criterion. With a few exceptions, most of their redesigns are stunning. Their cover for Paul Schrader's Mishima is one of my favorites- too bad they don't have a poster of it for sale. Eric Skillman, their main design guy, has a blog (sadly updates have been few and far between lately): cozylummox.blogspot.com iirc.

really depends on the new art

those nabokov art piece book covers from last year or wtv were pretty lame

there's also this trend of making old-timey (like vintage penguin style) covers for new stuff and then posting it up on flickr and stuff

this is this gone right:

http://notyellowchicken.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/robocop.jpg

i like these old ones -
http://books.guardian.co.uk/pictures/0,,1752252,00.html

this newish one for the invisible man one isnt bad -
http://freelancerforhire.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/invisible1.jpg

those guardian ones are the o.g. covers, not new 'modern' artwork

the invisible man one is just like... a thrown-together book cover.

and fuck, apparently that's all one guy, germano facetti? amazing run. i've read a bunch of them in those editions [via my parents' copies]

xpost

er, yeah indeed

i suppose with dvds maybe more than books, id like it more if they stuck with the original artwork.

i mean theres nothing wrong with this -
http://phatcaliph.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/the-terminator-terminator-297809_555_8002.jpg

but my dvd looks like this -
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51baa8QGooL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

xpost - huh? i know theyre the og covers. hence why i said i like these old ones.

with dvds, miniaturizing the poster is kind of the easy way out imo

obviously it makes it more recognizable/iconic tho

i don't know if they're the exact same shape, so you'd have to do some redesigning

i don't give that much of a monkeys abt dvds tbh, don't carry em around on public transport etc, rent most of them, etc.

I'm on my phone and can't post examples, but the redesign of Stanislaw Lem paperbacks from (I think) Vintage kind of pisses me off. The old ones had this gorgeous blocky lettering and pastel illustrations while the new ones are all cluttered computer graphic bullshit. I think the beginning of the end was the movie tie-in edition for Solaris...

I'm the kind of sad OCD beardo that actually gives a little bit of a shit about this kind of thing. The newly redesigned Vonnegut paperbacks are annoying me too, since I hadn't completed my shelf yet and now they're going to be all mismatched OH NOES. (Kudos to whatever designer managed to get the asshole doodle from Breakfast of Champions on all the spines, though.)

This (the one I own)

versus this.

what annoys me the most is when a book is made into a movie and they release a new edition of the book with the actors from the movie on the cover. I remember this kind of thing preventing me from buying a book a couple of times.

that is probably the one design thing that will always drive me away. I noticed recently that the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Orlando has a still from the film for its cover. Weird.

I love those Facetti designs, if I could have a library of nothing but those books I would.

guess sally potter is sufficiently highbrow

ha, on that matter, iirc artificial eye dvds used to have reversible covers, one the half-grey format, one more mersh. p sure they had that for 'orlando' anyway.

This (the one I own)

versus this.

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My favorite of those Penguin Classics was Chester Brown's cover for Lady Chatterley's Lover:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/405043127_c71e22e22c.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/405042904_1ff768adc5.jpg