Do you like music? Do you like books? You’ll find these classic albums reimagined as novels – in covers and synopses – pretty cool. From Pixies to Dire Straits, Arcade Fire to The Clash, The Killers to My Bloody Valentine, Christophe Gowans sets best-selling music in the literary tradition. It makes sense that the London-based graphic designer used to work in the music industry. Some even come with synopses. Here’s one for ‘Loveless’:
Lengthy novel, published in 1964, about the descent into madness of a sexually repressed secretary in London. It may well conclude in a bloodbath of violent retribution, but at over 350 pages of wooden prose, who’s ever going to know?
And Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’:
Instruction manual for an obscure brand of personal computer. Slightly yellowed but completely unused, as the machine itself never worked. Indeed, upon opening it up to undertake a repair, it was found to have no working parts of any kind. In fact it contained a brick, taped to the inside of the housing
You can guy them as prints or postcards here. I want them all.
    
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