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Jem wrote:I can't see Playtime either? WTF!

Have you considered enrolling in a computer course at your local community college?

RE: Playtime

The red lettering on time clashes horribly with the green on the 'c' and the tabs.

If it stays like that I'll have to felt-tip over the green with blue when I get a copy.

n w wrote:The red lettering on time clashes horribly with the green on the 'c' and the tabs.

I like it. Playtime = Christmastime.

Criterion logo make it look like 7½ Samurai. Or more likely 7 and 2/3.

That's actually pretty funny & true.

I love the cover tho.

what is this from, it doesn't appear to be the book cover unless there's a new edition out?

matt wrote:

Jem wrote:I can't see Playtime either? WTF!

Have you considered enrolling in a computer course at your local community college?

Ouch! that's not very nice Matt.

I was just saying, on my computer (cache emptied) Playtime was not visible. It is today.

Ashirg wrote:

Criterion logo make it look like 7½ Samurai. Or more likely 7 and 2/3.

True, cooool.

Where is the love for this brilliant cover??? To me, it perfectly evokes childhood as well as this lovely film. Am I alone in thinking it's one of the all-time best?

The love is there man, perfect cover!

I think it's too busy

I guess I could do without the chalkboard-style drawings in the hex. But other than that it's pretty damn nice.

I too think it's nice .. once again however I swear they hired an old pro from the publishing industry to do their covers. It looks just like a Penguin "quality trade paperback".

New covers:

Boy oh boy, these will all look beautiful on my desktop at some point.

Serendipitous, I'm sure, but there's a remarkable formal consistency about those three covers. Pretty rare for Criterion.

comments on the new batch of covers:

sweetie is really nice, interesting font, lovely colors in particular.
clean, shaven is boring, we dont really need the huge face at all.
hands over the city is boring as well.

I don't think Hands Over the City is boring at all. I like it quite a bit, especially the reproduction of Rod Steiger's wall campaign posters.

souvenir wrote:I don't think Hands Over the City is boring at all. I like it quite a bit, especially the reproduction of Rod Steiger's wall campaign posters.

So do I, in fact, it suits the film perfectly.

I might be mistaken, but isn't that the Stadio San Paolo on the upper left-hand corner on that old map of Naples?

Sweetie. Love the film, the cover is ok too.

This has nothing to do with Criterion covers, but I thought some of you design nerds would want to read this interview with Paul Buckley, an executive art director (book covers) at Penguin. Penguin's design aesthetic (lately in particular) has been practically flawless.

Thanks Matt! This kinda appeal to me...

That's one of my favorite book covers of recent years. It's gorgeous. I actually bought and read the book almost solely because of the cover. It's quite harrowing, actually. Not about the Keebler elves at all.

matt wrote:This has nothing to do with Criterion covers, but I thought some of you design nerds would want to read this interview with Paul Buckley, an executive art director (book covers) at Penguin. Penguin's design aesthetic (lately in particular) has been practically flawless.

Thanks Matt. You may also find this interview with book cover designer John Grey interesting. It would be great to see him or Paul Buckley design some of the up and coming Criterion covers.

http://covers.fwis.com/jongray

Thanks for the link. I find myself picking up penguin editions more and more

A pleasant surprise when going through their website--one of my favorite novels, Niels Lyhne, which I thought was out-of-print for a good while has been recently released. A nice cover too