Designer: Gregg Kulick
Illustrator: Gregg Kulick
title: Brave New World
author: Aldous Huxley
publisher: Harper Perennial, 2006
Designer: Gregg Kulick
Illustrator: Gregg Kulick
title: Brave New World
author: Aldous Huxley
publisher: Harper Perennial, 2006
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “funny” take on these books before, this was a really smart call.
I assumed they were based off of old clip art of woodcuts, but apparently Kulick did the illustrations himself. Wow! The spine is really first-class too. (Once again Amazon’s scans let us down, the author’s name on the cover and spine is in a sharp bright red.)
— Eric Jacobsen, 2007-01-28 18:24:00
I love this novel so very much. These are, by far, the best cover art I’ve seen done for it.
— lizzy, 2007-01-28 19:52:00
I just saw this at B&N and I almost bought it just for the cover.
— Aaron Martin, 2007-01-28 20:11:00
Obviously the cover showing how man in Huxley’s fictional world is becoming a machine .
— terry bigham, 2007-01-29 04:29:00
Updated images, thanks Gregg!
— Eric J, 2007-01-29 15:20:00
Love this cover. Especially since science is making a move towards blending human genetics with technology. However, the illustration adds this humor of being held up in arms by the technology that surrounds us.
Be such a sad day when we try to replace printed literature.
— benjamin kinzer, 2007-01-30 09:44:00
Brilliant! Especially how everyone in the world appears to be made out of assembled parts – no one has a real soul, nor is anyone reaching for anything in particular – and they all worship Ford, the creator of the assembly line. Showing an engine and the mechanical border to the title is perfect!
I love this cover – which is especially odd considering I hate the book. Cool!
— cfk, 2007-02-02 20:53:00
Amazing concept, amazing execution. I’m really turning an eye to the new design of old classics. It’s really interesting to see how many designers mix old + new in order to come up with a solution. Old style looks mixed with modern design. This is just incredible.
— m welch, 2007-02-09 12:57:00
I’m not sure what that is…
— C-Dog, 2007-02-11 02:45:00
Very fun. Witty—kind of reminds me of Chips execution for the Invisible Elephant cover. I’m not gonna read into this too much cause the image is great…
I guess it alludes to the books idea of a perfectly functioning human machine. Well oiled parts = total well being. I dunno, I would have done this differently and that is what is so perfect;)
— Ian B. Shimkoviak, 2007-02-19 15:32:00
Laid back, seems like the designer had fun with this. Nice stuff.
— Ned Wright, 2007-03-19 13:20:00
I don’t see this cover as fitting the tone or mood of the book. The technology that dominates the story is sleek and ultra-modern, stuff like genetic engineering, not mechanical nineteenth-century gears and sprockets. The theme of the book is how scientific hedonism turns people into mindless sheep living in a perpetual fantasy land. Quite different I think from what this cover evokes.
— Karl Weber, 2007-07-27 12:43:00