{"id":4630,"date":"2011-06-23T10:57:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T09:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2011-06-23T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T09:57:49","slug":"video-games-vs-penguin-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/video-games-vs-penguin-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"Video games vs Penguin Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ollymoss.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Olly Moss<\/a> (a hugely talented illustrator and graphic designer, which I&#8217;ve had the good fortune to recently discover) created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ollym\/sets\/72157612646893506\/\" target=\"_blank\">these redesigned covers<\/a> for a number of his favourite video games, inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romek_Marber\" target=\"_blank\">Romek Marber&#8217;s<\/a> classic designs for Penguin Books in the 1960&#8217;s. This seemingly unsuited clash of mediums works so well, no doubt aided by the supreme wit and iconic cult references in Olly&#8217;s work. He&#8217;s als0 redesigned posters for classic films in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ollym\/sets\/72157607801959609\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Films in Black and Red&#8221;<\/a> series, which, needless to say, are ace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mgsollymoss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4631\" title=\"mgsollymoss\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mgsollymoss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mgsollymoss.jpg 233w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mgsollymoss-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/halflifeollymoss1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4637\" title=\"halflifeollymoss\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/halflifeollymoss1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/halflifeollymoss1.jpg 233w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/halflifeollymoss1-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olly Moss (a hugely talented illustrator and graphic designer, which I&#8217;ve had the good fortune to recently discover) created these redesigned covers for a number of his favourite video games, inspired by Romek Marber&#8217;s classic designs for Penguin Books in the 1960&#8217;s. This seemingly unsuited clash of mediums works so well, no doubt aided by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[42,12,337],"class_list":["post-4630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-book","tag-design","tag-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4639,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}