Let's face facts, Creatives are often hard people to buy for. For one, a lot of things they like (Apple computers, 500GB hard drives, Playstation 3s) tend to be on the expensive side. For another, many of them have very selective tastes which you may never understand, even with years and years of therapy.
Happily, Penguin Books has come up with the perfect gift for the Creative that loves to read: favorite Penguin titles without front cover art. You read that right. The books will come shrink wrapped with blank, art-quality covers that will hold ink, paint, pencil, and glue.
The titles in the My Penguin series include The Picture of Dorian Gray, Crime and Punishment, and Magic Tales by those happy Brothers Grimm. (I'm hoping they'll see fit to add The Natural History of Vacant Lots a little later on.)
After designing the cover, your fave Creative can send it into to the Penguin gallery and the fine folks there may just post it.
Of course, whether or not they post your very special someone's book art has nothing to do with you. You are the muse my friend, the bringer of the gift, after that it's all up to them.
If that doesn't drive the Holiday season home, I don't know what does.
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