Leanne Shapton's Covers for Jane Austen Novels

Once again, Leanne Shapton has created simply beautiful work. After finding these covers on Pinterest, I immediately decided I need to own them... despite any desire to ever read any Austen.

Her use of watercolors is pretty inspiring. She always seems to know exactly the right way to illustrate the subject. And she never fails to do something really great with only black and white.

This reminded me so much of her book, Sunday Night Movies. 

Yeah, I'd seriously buy those Austen novels with no intention of reading them. 

Learn more about Sunday Night Movies over on Visual News and see more of Shapton's work on her portfolio.

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some people always read Austen during the summer. Do you?

illustrated book jackets in similar colors

let's have all the kids review all the books

Leanne Shapton's new book "Sunday Night Movies"

I've been contributing to Visual News for a few months now and I love it. It's a great community filled with a TON of visual inspiration.

I was excited to share a bit of book lovin' in my latest post. And such a great subject. Leanne Shapton's beautiful new creation, Sunday Night Movies, is packed with beautiful black and white water color paintings of classic movie scenes.

You can learn more about the book, and the really nice story behind it, over at Visual News.

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the art of sliced books
beautiful and delicate embroidered book covers

Visual Mantras

I'm having one of those Tuesdays that feels like a Monday. Days like this require beautiful books like Ana Montiel's "Visual Mantras".

In Montiel's on-going Visual Mantras project, she focuses on cycles and repetition, revealing the meditative form of drawing. If you would like to learn more about the project and the book, CLICK HERE to visit her website.

This is a limited edition book with only 127 copies, which isn't very many, but some are still available. CLICK HERE to grab a copy, which will come with an original watercolor drawing by Montiel. 

(all images / found via Design Work Life)