Design doesn’t get much more modern, and the works don’t get much more classic than this gorgeous new edition of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Nicole Peterson, a recent graphic design graduate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, designed these book covers for Dante’s Divine Comedy.

“I wanted to create a set of covers that didn’t use images from the [Hieronymus] Bosch Hell painting, or any images of Dante and Virgil that are normally found on covers for the Divine Comedy, I was inspired by Dante’s use of mathematics and architecture in describing Hell, Heaven and Purgatory [and] employed simple geometric shapes and color to represent these places, while still keeping the design simple and allowing the reader to use their imagination when reading these vivid poems.”

Bravo, Nicole, they are truly inspired. Here’s a link to Nicole’s Flickr Page, and make sure you click through on those thumbnails at the top to get a look at the higher-res versions, they’ve got some serious impact.

[via Design Related]