We love everything to do with books, and we think that spines are an under appreciated aspect of their design. We came up with this idea to explore the really beautiful spines that were released with some our most beloved classics. Virginia Woolf is one of the world’s greatest writers and one of our favourites. Ever since we discovered these really kooky, really beautiful covers her sister the artist Vanessa Bell did for the first editions of her novels, we’ve been wanting to do something with them, so that other people might be able to discover just how awesome these are.

 

We’ve been working hard to recreate these beautiful spines in all their glory. We’re pretty happy with the results we’ve been getting. But how to bring our tribute these beautiful spines into the physical world? Should we present them as a neat little collection, split them up into bundles, or just present each spine as it’s own gorgeous self? There’s so many variations on how we could it. The mind boggles a little. And what about the myriad of options for printing? We’ve considered letterpress, we’ve thought about  lino prints, we’ve pondered screen printing. We’ll be thinking over all these things in the next couple of weeks. We can promise it will be a worthwhile reveal. Watch this space.