This is zipping around my Internets today, understandably as it combines those two key things, sex and great graphic design, to create a people alphabet, something you don’t see enough of these days. Penguin US are doing a new version of the Kama Sutra and, realising that their defacto monopoly on public domain texts has completely evaporated these days, have commissioned a gorgeous cover by Malika Favre, a French illustrator living in London.

Many more closeups and photos of the books on Core77, Creative Review and, of course, Favre’s own site.

Of course these things don’t spring out of a vacuum. Favre has loads of work online including this saphic alphabet which probably got her the commission.

You can buy her prints online.

via John Coulthart, naturally.