Eye Magazine, devoted to graphic design old and new, including music packaging, has done a great post on their blog about the Covered book with examples and comment. “Until I read Covered, I’d no idea just how many copycat album covers had been unleashed upon the world – good, bad and mostly very (and sometimes deliberately) ugly. But highly entertaining. Simon Robinson adds credits, witty captions and typographical critiques.”

Author Jan Bellekens has also been interviewed by more papers and Reklame Klokje have featured the story in their online edition in Belgium. You can see the story here.

More media outlets have got reviews on the way and Jonny Trunk has asked to review it for the UK magazine Record Collector. Trunk Records is a great label, unearthing and issuing many esoteric projects both on CD (such as lost theme music and advertising jingles) and in books (Jonny’s latest on Sainsbury’s own brand packaging is one of those titles which makes you want it immediately and we reviewed his book on Library Music albums on the ST33.net site a while ago).

Covered got held up a few more days when it was discovered that all my carefully prepared artwork had been converted to PDF, but in doing so I’d not clicked the “preserve bleed” option, so the printers could not proceed (when printers guillotine books down to finished size, they like a bit of overlap at the outside of the pages otherwise you risk getting white edges to your pictures). As it took me an hour to re-output then five hours to check and upload the files again, it’s a lesson I’ll not forget in a hurry! In the past I’ve used pre-set options so not had to worry about this small but important option. In the meantime, here are Deadline trying to look mean and Parallel Lines era Blondie-like!

Two limited edition prints inspired by vintage vinyl. These have been done by the designer of our Covered book. Click the image for details and the learn more about the works.

The Easy On The Eye on-line shop is recommended for ordering books, as well as exclusive mail-order only items like promotional posters, photographs and prints. Orders can also be placed over the phone by credit card for those who prefer a bit of human contact, or have any questions to ask.

Author Jan Bellekens has been grabbed for a story on the Covered book by the Gazet van Antwerpen (Antwerp Gazette), one of Belgium’s national papers. They interviewed him about the book and photographed him for the paper, as well as running a selection of whacky covers. Jan has also been featured in another local paper. Here’s a clip from the Antwerp feature; you can look at them in full on our site here.

Anyone who fancies any A5 flyers for the Covered book let us know. We’re sending a wedge to the two main distributors but if any shops want some we’ve done extra. In the meantime, here are some worthy examples of people getting carried away by Saturday Night Fever.