AN ART CAMPAIGN FOR ARTISTS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNERS WHO LOVE BOOKS.
About the National Initiative
"Sadly, many of the greatest classics in the public domain are left with poorly designed or
auto­generated covers that fail to capture what makes these books exciting and inspiring to
us. So we've invited illustrators, typographers, and designers of all stripes to create new
covers for 100 of the greatest works in the public domain. Anyone can contribute..."
Find out more about the national initiative at: http://recoveringtheclassics.com
About BiblioTech's Campaign
BiblioTech Digital Library has partnered with RTC (Recovering the Classics) to host a local
campaign for artists and graphic designers across Texas. Artists of all ages can contribute.
The selected designs will be announced on July 15th and printed and displayed at
BiblioTech's library branches through the month of August. The artwork will also be used to
recover public domain e­books that can then be borrowed from BiblioTech.
Find specifications, approved books, the submission form and more at:
http://bexarbibliotech.org/recoveringtheclassics
ACCEPTING ENTRIES: MARCH 14 ­ JULY 1, 2016
Submission Guidelines
1. Choose a public domain book from the list on the next pages of this packet
2. Design an original artwork using key themes and features from the book (you don't have to read the book, but
it certainly helps). Here is some inspiration: http://recoveringtheclassics.com
3. Follow the following guidelines laid out by the team at Recovering the Classics...
Your Cover Should:
Depict the front cover of one of the listed titles, prominently displaying the book’s title (larger) and the
author’s full name
Be a vertically oriented, 12" by 18" RGB image at a resolution of 300dpi (3600 by 5400 pixels) that is a JPG
or PNG
Be bold, expressive, and engaging
Be legible in black and white
Be a full bleed image (no margins or borders)
Keep a safe area of at least 1" on all sides (don’t place text too close to the edge)
Optional: Include an apparel file that is layered or includes a transparent background (AI, PSD, PNG, TIFF)
(Be sure to outline any fonts used)
Your Cover Shouldn’t:
Include urls or logos (small artist signatures are fine)
Use copyrighted images or images that don't belong to you. All images you use should be your own, or
available under a creative commons or other similar license
Rely overly on cliches
4. Submit your finished book cover to dropbox by July 1st, 2016
Find the dropbox link at http://bexarbibliotech.org/recoveringtheclassics
The selected designs will be announced on July 15th via twitter and Facebook, and will be printed and displayed
at the BiblioTech branches (3505 Pleasanton Road and 2003 S. Zarzamora) through the month of August. We
may have a special event honoring the artists. Details on this to come.
Lastly, copies of the public domain books with their new covers will be added to our permanent digital collection.
Thanks for joining us in giving classic literature a fresh, modern face!
­Team BiblioTech
Public Domain Booklist Pg 1
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dubliners by James Joyce
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Howards End by E. M. Forster
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Author Unknown
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot
Moby­Dick by Herman Melville
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress by Charles Dickens
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Unknown
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Legend of Sleep Hollow by Washington Irving
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Through the Looking­Glass by Lewis Carroll
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Frederich Nietzsche
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Ulysses by James Joyce
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Winesburg Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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