Douglas Coupland is one of my favourite authors, and he's a really interesting person all around. I haven't had the chance to meet him... yet, but he's Canadian as well so it's not impossible that I might run into him at a supermarket one day. He studied art at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and has taught at design schools in Japan and Italy. This is a side of his not as well known, and I was surprised to find out about his artistic abilities. But I'm glad I did.
I posted a while back about the intro to his TV show, JPod, which I loved the design of. Now I'm posting about just a couple of his collage works called The Penguins, which are made out of old penguin book covers. I think they're fantastic and I would love to see more like this. More of his art work can be found here, at his website.
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I love the penguin book covers, have you even seen the Seven Hundred Penguins book?
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141031880,00.html
Your blog is amazing, I will check back often.
That sounds like a great book!
There is also a site where you can design your own cover for a number of penguin books, which is really neat too.
http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/mypenguin/index.html