Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Saturday, September 18, 2021

DUNE | cover art & design

When Denis Villeneuve signed on to direct a 21st century version of the Frank Herbert classic sci-fi novel, Dune, he was no doubt aware of the book’s long and lasting history. 


new cover art

With the release of the new movie - and hopefully more to follow on film and tv - Dune is about to have a new wave of resurrected and fresh devotees and art work to feed our frenzy.


more Dune covers


wonder | wander |world can’t wait to see the concept art that comes out from all this hype. As art aficionados, we tracked the graphic design and illustration to see how much the book covers changed over the years. As sci-fi geeks, we devoured and dissected all Dune material we could find throughout the decades. 


an older version of the Dune series


Tracking a classic book like Dune - that tends to get redesigned every few years - clearly captures the design trends then and how they evolved through the years. 


the version we first read in 1979

Here is our selection of the last few decades of book cover designs through the lens of Dune by Frank Herbert.


the first edition


While we wait for the latest release and the “Art of Dune” book companion, we can pick our favorite versions from them. For other versions, you can enjoy more designs here as we step into the Dune universe and legacy.


foreign editions

Friday, June 9, 2017

MORE art from Mahala

Perpetuating our own productivity, this week's wonder | wander | world post features more of Mahala's artistic illustrations.


A recent trip to Venice was the inspirations for these fashion illustrations revolving around the Moretta, or 'mute servant' mask - a Venetian ladies' mask held on by gripping a button between the teeth, rendering the wearer silent.


The second set features some italic practice with dip pens and Diamine inks, using forms by Gaye Godfrey-Nicholls.

Enjoy! May these spark on more inspiration, feeding more projects.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

what peaceful, free, and open borders look like

View of the Great Courtyard of the Statale University of Milan [photo © Inexhibit, 2016]. 

Open Borders : between design and architecture at Milan University

As usual each year, during Milan Design Week 2016, courtyards and porticoes of the 
Statale University of Milan accommodate installations and micro-architectures which, 
for this year’s edition, are inspired by a theme entitled “Open Borders”.

The idea was to invite designers to go beyond the traditional distinction between 
architecture and design and to create proposals, quite different from one another, which 
also involve visual arts, cinema, social sciences, new lifestyles, and sustainability.