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Fake book covers: "Holy Bible: Let's Try This Again" by Jesus Christ and "Enough Foucault, Let's Disco" by Albert Camus

From Foucault to Frida Font Friday: Cover designs for books that don’t exist (but should)

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got away without being written, subsequently posting them on his Tumblr, 100 Books That Should Be Written [Tumblr is no longer active].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.


Fake book cover: "Enough Foucault, Let's Disco" by Albert Camus
Fake book cover: "Unify" by Frida Kahlo
Fake book cover: "I Was Wrong About Almost Everything... And To The Women: I'm Sorry" by Jack Kerouac
Fake book cover: "This Is What I Meant" by James Joyce
Fake Book Cover: "You Can Architecture Too" by Frank Gehry
Fake book cover: "In My Own Words" by Socrates
Fake book cover: "The Poor Young Boy Who Gains Immense Wealth Against All Odds Without Compromise of Virtue or Moral Character While The Greedy Old Cantankerous Villain Dies Of Jealousy and is Never Remembered" by Charles Dickens
Fake book cover: "An Awful Mess: A Perfunctory Preparation for your Pubescent Odyssey into the Stinking Adult World." by Roald Dahl, Illustrated by Quentin Blake
Fake Book Cover: "Your Argument is Weak At Best" by Charles Darwin
Fake book cover: "Are You There God? It's Me, Richard... Of Course Not: A Dissection of Theological and Existential Indoctrination in Youth Literature" by Richard Dawkins
Fake book cover: The Bees Are Dying! -or- Seriously, You Should Really Start Listening to Me! The Earth is Coming Apart at the Seams, but It's Not Too Late!" by Al Gore

2 Responses

    1. 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

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