Couldn't decide whether to put this in Books or Arts... Arts won.


An artist I stumbled upon, M.S. Corley, redesigned the covers of the Harry Potter books to look like Penguin Classics. He also did the same for the Lemony Snicket series. They haven't actually been published like this... he just did them as kind of a fun experiment.

Some people have commented that, even though they're nice, Corley didn't capture the true spirit of Harry Potter. Meh, I still think they're pretty cool.

Here are my favourites of the HP series:




Source: http://mscorley.blogspot.com/2009/02/harry...r-redesign.html

These are really awesome. I really like the 1st one.

I like the idea, but I agree with the people who say that he "didn't capture the true spirit of Harry Potter."

*goes to tumblr*

I dont like it, the original design looked more interesting, these look like harry potter cliffnotes or something

I'm not too fond of The Order of the Phoenix one, but I like the rest. They're simple, but still have their own style.

delte

i only like the one for H.P. and the Philosophers Stone. i wanna see the ones for Lemony Snicket.

yessss. although i admit, i do love the originals.

me too. but i can't seem to get to it on tumblr. do i have to have an account to see it? i like the pages in The Ersatz Elevator where it's just black. that was amusing.

http://mscorley.blogspot.com/2009/02/lemon...t-redesign.html


I'm sure I've seen some Penguin Classics that look like that before, but I can't find any pictures right now... the closest I can find at the moment are these.

thanks. i like most of the Lemony Snicket. i would buy the covers to go over the originals just so i could have both.

I love those, I would so buy books with that cover art.

Even if they don't capture the true whatever from the story they still are simple and look nice.

wow, i love all of those. especially the bad beginning and the penultimate peril.

Oh, I just found another artist (Olly Moss) on Flickr who did the exact same thing with video games: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ollym/sets/72157612646893506/

i love The Bad Beginning, The Austere Academy, The Vile Village (it's erie), and the Penultimate Peril.

Oh, found some better examples! http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/spreads/al...998399L_104.jpg

too modern shit