October 13 2009
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Weird and Wonderful Eastern European Book Covers
Last month I was traveling around the former Eastern Bloc and Soviet Union with a camera, taking hundreds of pictures… buildings, people, etc. But what really blew my mind the most? These bizarre and yet beautiful paperback book covers from the late Communist era. What makes the illustrations and graphic design so mysterious to our Western aesthetic sensibility? Is it more than the fact that we can’t read the titles? All I know is, I couldn’t get enough of looking at these books.
These are just a sample. Check out my Flickr set containing many more!
