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Weekend End Deviation – Book Covers on T-Shirts

Posted: October 17th, 2010 | No Comments »

Respect to Arrive, “Amtrak’s onboard magazine for Northeast business and leisure travelers”, for alerting me to this great website and company – Out of Print Clothing. Quite simply the company puts onto t-shirts the art and typography of great book covers. Then, for each shirt they sell, one book is donated to a community in need through their partner Books For Africa. Here’s Huxley’s Brave New World followed in a traditional juxtaposition a la Eng Lit A Level question by Orwell’s 1984:

OK – Compare and Contrast. There’s a whole bunch of other book covers on T-shirts here.

Excellent idea



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