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February 4th, 2011

Peter Haars Book Covers

Filed under: Inspiration — Tags: , — William Cardini @ 7:26 am

While looking at Stanislaw Lem books covers to illustrate my previous blog post, I came across Peter Haars’ work. He’s a Norwegian graphic designer who did book covers, comics, and other artwork. I couldn’t find any of his comics, which is a shame, because if they’re anything like his book covers, I’m sure they’re amazing.

He’s got several interesting themes running through his covers. Here you can see the eye-in-landscape theme:

C.S. Lewis: Reisen til Malacandra. Publisher: Gyldendal Lanterne 1975. Cover: Peter Haars.
via svenneven’s flickr.

He’s also got a nice theme of human faces melting into inanimate objects:

Kurt Vonnegut: Sirenene på Titan. Publisher: Gyldendal Lanterne 1974. Cover: Peter Haars.
via svenneven’s flickr.

This guy fits nicely into my search for weird landscapes for inspiration. Here’s another iteration of the eye-in-landscape theme, for another C.S. Lewis book:

C.S. Lewis: Perelandra. Publisher: Gyldendal Lanterne 1976. Cover: Peter Haars.
via svenneven’s flickr.

Here’s an interesting variation on the person mirrored in an inanimate object:

Thore Hansen: Grimaser. Publisher: Gyldendal Lanterne 1975. Cover: Peter Haars.

All of these images are via svenneven’s flickr.

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