In junior high we had to read George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, as I imagine almost every student has read at one point or another. Back in my day, we were each assigned a used, beat-up copy of these books with covers just like this:
Dig that crazy 1984 font! Groovy! Actually, the Animal Farm cover is pretty cool, now that I think about it. I just didn't know it back then. I don't know who designed this cover, but its actually very well done.
Incidentally, here are a couple of other covers of different editions of 1984:
Why didn't schools give out these versions of 1984? I'm sure we would have all paid attention more closely. Oh-la-la!The reason for my old age jealously is that Penguin is coming out with new editions for both of these books with all new covers by Shepard Fairey:
I'm sure some school is going to get brand-spanking-new copies of these Penguin editions for their students. I'm also sure that those students are going to deface the covers by writing awful things about the other kids they don't like. Little punks.
Shepard Fairey, by the way, is the same artist who designed the Barack Obama poster that you may have seen once or twice during the presidential campaign:
Go Obama!
