Fake Boring Books

[Nuclear Optimism]

[Ambient Sheep]

I'm afraid it was entirely from my own imagination, Sheepy! I just knocked it all up with generated shapes, lines and fonts in Photoshop.

Bloody hell!  Just sheer genius, then.

"...and PET 3000".  I think I love you.

[Nuclear Optimism]

[Beep Cleep Chimney]

[Beep Cleep Chimney]

[Phil_A]

[Crabwalk]

Karmas all round for these, which are fantastic. And a bonus for lazyhour as the ringleader.

[Beep Cleep Chimney]

[ziggy starbucks]

I found this a really tough challenge. The shops posted have been absolutely fantastic

[ziggy starbucks]

[lazyhour]

Willie Thorne book

Masterful.

[Thomas]

[ziggy starbucks]

[Gradual Decline]

[Kane Jones]

These are simply excellent and have caused big laughs, not just from me but from work colleagues too. I get karma for just saying rude words or being silly sometimes; these book covers are properly karma-worthy. You're all brilliant.

[Thomas]

Dedicated to Kane Jones -

[Noodle Lizard]

Seconded. Spill the beans, designers.

Thirded.  Spill the beans, Thomas!  Why is this pursuit so elitist?

[Thomas]

I use online image editing thing Fotoflexer to give my fake book covers a 'Film Grain' and 'Old Photo' sheen.

I'll be darned if I know where these beautiful wrinkled cover effects are coming from, though. Probably that Photoshop.

[Gradual Decline]

I'll be darned if I know where these beautiful wrinkled cover effects are coming from, though. Probably that Photoshop.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joekral/sets/72157594264351021/

[Thomas]

'Ey, them's nice, thanks. Some of them do look bloody boring already, though.

[alcoholic messiah]

Some of them do look bloody boring already, though.

You're so close to the truth, Thomas...

Think about it...

Spoiler alert

They're clearly real books, and these charlatans are just taking photographs of the covers, then posting them here in a vainglorious attempt to convince us that they're the ones responsible for lovingly crafting them.

[close]

[lazyhour]

It's gone three o'clock in the morning. What am I doing with my life?

[pigamus]

It's gone three o'clock in the morning. What am I doing with my life?

Enhancing mine. Please don't stop, any of you. The Willie Thorne one made me shriek, convulse and fart all at the same time.

[Queneau]

[Norton Canes]

[Norton Canes]

Yes, they all creased in exactly the same way.

[Thomas]

[alcoholic messiah]

[Thomas]

But that sounds like a great name for a novel,[nb]Please note - not an actual sexist guide to killing, but a novel.[/nb] alcoholic messiah.

[alcoholic messiah]

Really?

Perhaps I've just become jaded.