Reimagination of the Day: Graphic designer Alex Charchar, bored with the existing stock of cover art for George Orwell’s 1984, decided to design a facade for the book that made use of its content in a strikingly inventive way: “A cover as if it were made by those in the novel.”
Charchar explains the cover’s significant in depth here, but note that his essay contains a few big spoilers.
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Reimagining Nineteen Eighty-Four:
I just spent a good 20 minutes looking for this on google. Saw it on tumblr a few weeks ago and I should have reblogged...
Oh, brilliant. I went with this concept a little earlier last semester when I had to retypeset Notes From Underground...
love the concept, although i already own it i would love this edition
Such an obvious idea, when you think about it,...so well executed.
re-reading (and coincidentally, one...was my previous post).
Love love love. I want...buy/reread 1984 now,...will...
this is fantastic.
Exciting reimaginings of important works: ARB
This is awesome on so many levels.
A wonderful idea.
omg you guys, this is awesome
This is more like it.
Very cool. Remember when I said I was halfway through this? Yeah. I then left it at my grandmother’s. Outside. It’s been...
whollychao:thedailywhat:
OMFG I JUST DIED OF GLEE. unperson! they used newspeak … NEWSPEAK…that’s doubleplusgood :]]] gahhh i am