Art, Music, Writing & Creativity

Our Dumas 150th Anniversary design celebrates the great lion of French literature, Alexandre Dumas. The front cover features a handwritten draft of The Count of Monte Cristo and the back cover shows an illustration of the prison where the Count was jailed. Today, Dumas remains among the world’s most widely read authors.

Our Dreamscapes cover, recreating a 2011 piece of art by Catrin Welz-Stein, suggests the eruption of creativity that happens when we find ourselves in that liminal place between waking and dreaming. It arrests the eye while representing the uncontrollable and barely knowable nature of creativity in its purest form.

Our Wordscapes cover, recreating a work by Catrin Welz-Stein, suggests the creative process of the mind’s mysterious inner workings. One can see influences and elements of children’s literature, surrealism and folklore in this image that invites you to enter your own Wordscape within its pages.

Eric Comstock’s retro sensibilities and diverse inspirations give his work a distinct and sought-after look. He takes his inspiration from everything from his own child’s drawings to his collection of jazz albums. His original work, Triangle Man, has been reproduced for our Hound Dog cover design.

Inspired by the retro party atmosphere of Eric Comstock’s work reproduced here, originally titled Robot Friends, we’ve named this cover Come Together after one of our favourite songs of the 1960s. Comstock, an illustrator and designer, lives in Austin, Texas, and has recently released his first children’s book.

Brian Froud has drawn inspiration from the landscapes of the English moorlands to create an unparalleled body of creative work. He is the genius behind Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. We have reproduced a scene from his 2007 book Brian Froud’s World of Faerie for our Mischievous Creatures cover design.

Our Dumas 150th Anniversary design celebrates the great lion of French literature, Alexandre Dumas. The front cover features a handwritten draft of The Count of Monte Cristo and the back cover shows an illustration of the prison where the Count was jailed. Today, Dumas remains among the world’s most widely read authors.