The Digital Public Library of America amplifies the value of libraries as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. They do this by proactively collaborating with partners in the field to accelerate innovative tools and ideas that empower and equip libraries to broaden digital access to information. Recovering The Classics is a crowdsourced collection of original book covers for some of the greatest works in the public domain, where anyone can contribute.
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Artist StatementA contrast between good and bad self, so nice to do in black and white. Sort of a mirror image, but distorted. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementThis honors the great Howard Pyle, who illustrates the moment young Arthur pulls the Sword from the Stone. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementCreation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns / Art direction...
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Artist StatementCreation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns / Art direction...
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Artist StatementChaucer is one of the greatest writers in English, so why not add his coat of arms? He lets us see what real people thought and what they said,...
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Artist StatementActing: Creation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns / Art...
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Artist StatementActing: Creation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns / Art...
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Artist StatementActing: Creation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns / Art...
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Artist Statement Acting: Creation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns /...
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Artist StatementActing: Creation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns / Art...
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Artist StatementNietzsche thought long and hard about what it is to be a human - what do we really want? How to be good, how to be bad, how to...
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Artist Statement Acting: Creation of graphic design of publications / Layout / Creative layout / Creation of branding and visual identity / Creation of graphic material for advertising campaigns /...
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Artist StatementAesop's Fables have been told and retold for hundreds of years. This public domain illustration charmingly describes some kind of relationship between the two talking birds and the thinking...
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Artist StatementThis beautiful public domain illustration captures the complexity of the Little Mermaid story by Hans Christian Andersen. - Vivian Chang
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Artist Statement I wanted to depict the main characters in a sort of 'yin and yang' composition to show off their good and evil juxtaposition. I was told that there...
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Artist Statement For this project, I wanted to depict the main stars Erik/Phantom and Christine using the 'Angel of Music' and 'mirror' symbols. While they are centered and together on...
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Artist StatementFreud wrote about the conscious, the unconscious, the preconscious, the ego and id, love and death. He used the image of a rider's relationship of control, to the strength...
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Artist StatementReading these arguments for a United States of America make you realize that they were literally stitching together a new government, in parts and in haste. Wow. - Vivian...
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Artist StatementBertrand Russell was understandably worried about where the world would go next, after WW1. The old order was obviously crumbling, and what would become of us all? - Vivian...
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Artist Statement I was inspired by the Ancient Greek tradition of black and red figure pottery for my cover of Aesop's Fables. I wanted to emphasize the historic nature of...
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Artist Statement The Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of my favorite books! Combining my love of cathedrals and unusual protagonists, I had to draw it. I started with sketching...
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Artist StatementThomas Hobbs wrote this about why people need to band together under an authority to establish freedom and liberty. When things get big, it's too much for each single...
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Artist StatementWomen were confined in many ways in the time and place described in the book. A corset is a poignant symbol of what constrained women. Yikes. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementMarx and Engels wrote during a period of political and social revolution. They scared the pants off The Establishment. They tried to figure out what was going on and...
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Artist StatementMill wrote about "liberty" in terms of the Victorian society that he lived in, and in relation to his strict religious upbringing . He was a little fuzzy on...
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Artist StatementBoy meets girl, boy and girl fight bad guys, girl dies. Boy mourns and tells story. Not the best variation but interesting for ideas about the moon at the...
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Artist StatementAny architecture fan will recognize Le Corbusier before he was Le Corbusier. This was a revolutionary document at the time, and I want to honor that. - Vivian Chang
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Artist Statemente.e.cummings' printer refused his ampersand. So he gets it this time, with the idiosyncratic word breaks he liked so much. His famous love poem is included in this collection....
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Artist StatementRobert Frost's first collection, New Hampshire, contains the poem "Fire and Ice." Love and hate and the destruction of the world. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementI wanted the Dracula cover to be very dark and simple. The A's in Dracula act as his fangs. - Abby Brown
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Artist StatementVeblen had a new theory about production and consumption by different members of society. - Vivian Chang
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Artist StatementShowing the struggles of the characters who become prisoners of their own insecurities and possessivity. - Roberlan Paresqui
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Artist StatementIn my graphic design class, i created book covers for The works of Edgar Allan Poe - Portia Birdine
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Artist StatementIn my graphic design class, I created book covers for The works of Edgar allan Poe - Portia Birdine
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Artist StatementIn my graphic design class, I created book covers for the works of Edgar Allan Poe - Portia Birdine
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Artist StatementA funny way to show Bertrand vision on the forces of industrialism and nationalism and the effects on the population. - Roberlan Paresqui
