From io9.com, from an article that’s since been deleted:
As part of his Masters of Branding study at the School of Visual Arts, Tyler Adam Smith is creating 100 covers for books that should be written, from goofy snarks at popular authors to imagined sequels to beloved books.
Designer Debbie Millman, who chairs the branding department, charged each student in the program to come up with a project that demands a daily contribution over 100 days. That’s how Smith came up with 100 Books That Should Be Written. Some of his imaginary book covers are funny; others are glorious pieces of wishful thinking, and some of them would be must-reads if they ever came into existence. There are 83 entries so far.
From anOther online magazine:
[W]e bring you Tyler Adam Smith’s sparklingly witty collection of covers he designed for books that somehow got away without being written, subsequently posting them on his Tumblr, 100 Books That Should Be Written [Tumblr is no longer active]. Each one offers hilariously apt observations on the work of its famous author or, in the case of Socrates, on the conspicuous lack thereof. Here we pick a selection of our favourites [sic] from the project, from Unify by Frida Kahlo to This is What I Meant by James Joyce.
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It’s not even speculative when you simply record the experience of black women in slavery and put them in white-face. It’s called plagiarism.
Maria, I really appreciate your comment. I hadn’t thought of the book that way. I can put the comment right under the image of the book image to make it more prominent, with or without your name. Let me know if that would work by responding here. Thanks, Nicola