Qué caso tiene

Another big thanks to for Borr who identified Rogelio Naranjo as the artist of much of the work in the last post on Nexos magazine. I went searching for more of Rogelio Naranjo's work and found scans of his 1982 book Qué caso tiene at La Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo's site, where Naranjo studied. Here are some favorites:
































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Many more (including some great caricatures) at la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo [link]
Rogelio Naranjo at Wikipedia (en español) [link]
Qué caso tiene at WorldCat [link] at OpenLibrary [link]

Chinese Book Covers

While checking out my town's new rare/used book store, Logos Books, I found this book of a collection of works from China's 'Central Academy of Arts & Design'. The full (and awkwardly translated) titled is "Selections of Designing Work the Central Academy of Arts & Design, 1956-1986" by Zhong Yang, Gong Yi Mei Shu Xue Yuan and She Ji Pin Xuan. I can find no information about the book online. Here are a few of my favorite book covers from the book. I'll post some posters and record designs from the book sometime soon.


Design, Wang Xiaofei


The Selected Works of the Film songs, Chen Shaohua


Clown Hans, Yu Bingnan


Contemporaries, He Yanming


Motherland in My Heart, Wu Guanying


Time and Life, Chen Yadan


Eagle, Ci Xiangqun


Aesop's Fables, Li Meng


Wall, Yue Xin


The Timber Processing and its Utility, Kang Renping


Frontier Town, Kang Renping


Frontier Town, Ren Jianmin


The Selected Works of Zhang Henshui, Yu Bingnan


Gas Press-Container, Kang Renping


The Great Wall, He Yanming


The Spring of the Beauties, Chen Xiaohong

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Found this at my newly reopened local independent bookstore, Logos Books [link]
a few more covers are posted over at my flickr [link]
The Central Academy of Arts & Design (who put out this book) seems to be now known as "China Central Academy Of Fine Arts" [link]

Women, Snakes and Stalkers: South Asian book covers

This is a dual post with Will, from the great A Journey Around My Skull. All of these magnificent covers come courtesy of Quinn Dombrowski's impressive South Asian books project, in which she photographs book covers from the "PK" section (Indo-Iranian languages and literatures) of the University of Chicago's Regenstein library. See more covers at her blog, Women, Snakes and Stalkers, and at her flickr. And be sure to view Will's picks here.

Thank you to @weetstraw, @Coudal, @posteroffensive who first linked me to Women, Snakes and Stalkers.

(click photos to visit the corresponding post at her blog)















































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visit her blog, Women, Snakes and Stalkers [link]
also check out her flickr [link]
and her website [link]
more at A Journey Around My Skull [link]