Book Worship
September 2, 2009 // Books + Design



I was clued in to Book Worship through the fine folks at Dwell and since then I’ve been loving it. Started by Shawn Hazen who used to work over at Dwell, Shawn is basically a book nerd who finds these great old books which having amazing covers. Sometimes you might run across a Flickr group that showcases cool old book, but Shawn is like a curator of fine book art. Lots of great stuff to see, be sure to check it out.

Bobby

  1. It’s always the university textbooks that have the coolest covers. The nerdier the material, the better.

    HATED the cover of my History of Industrial Design textbook.

    Comment by Jason Ham — September 3, 2009 #

  2. Wow. These are amazing. I’m such a data nerd. Vintage science + Helvetica and two/three colors. How can you go wrong?

    Comment by michael — September 3, 2009 #

  3. With as much love as there is online for book covers like this when are publishers going to learn to start doing this again

    Comment by ilmari — September 3, 2009 #

  4. Drool worthy.

    Comment by Kirk — September 3, 2009 #

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  6. indeed very nice looking cover, like to see you go beyond the cover, and actually read it and understand it; after all books are for reading not looking.

    Comment by 6mt — September 4, 2009 #

  7. Good stuff.

    Comment by nerdski — September 4, 2009 #

  8. @6mt – That defeats the purpose of the blog, which is to appreciate the design of the book covers.

    Comment by Bobby — September 4, 2009 #

  9. such nice cover never appear in China>0<

    Comment by ShaunZi — September 5, 2009 #