Penguin Archive takeover at Shreeji Newsagents, Marylebone

‘Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.’ 
Walter Benjamin - Unpacking my Library

Taking you from a Japanese tea ceremony to the mean streets of New York, from ancient battlefields to haunted graveyards and all the way into outer space, this new Penguin Classics series brings together an eclectic range of some of the greatest, most transporting stories, ideas and poetry from ninety years of publishing.

Drawn from the Penguin Classics archives, this A format series features irresistible cover designs, each one riffing uniquely on Penguin’s beloved heritage.

Jim Stoddart, Art Director for Penguin Classics, said: 

“Designing the Penguin Archive series has been an extensive fever dream of books covers old and new. Using typography as the medium to evoke different Penguin eras, we’ve reprised the creativity of many legendary designers involved with creating Penguin’s visual legacy, from those first tentative covers and hand-drawn logos, to the highest evocation of type and book design. To be honest, it’s been a privilege standing on the shoulders of these design giants to rekindle much-loved and often iconic book covers from the last 90 years.”