A sweet Sarah Schmidt NYT article on the Hamberechts, a Williamsburg husband-wife team seeking converts to their cause: a Bible illustrated verse-by-verse by artists. As Gawker proves, in a shock'n awesome display of Powerpoint skillz, hipsters-only will do, if artists are few. Check out the Bible-in-progress at Flaming Fire, or the Hamberechts' other site, God Magazine. Being in Williamsburg and Christian, there's also a band involved somehow.
Problem: So you want a (non-hipster) Bible, but when you hear "Madonna and Child," the first thing that pops into your mind isn't, "Raphael," but "Oh, she's got a children's book coming out."
You have two options:
Pocket Canons, cheap, stylin' little hip-pocket books of the KJV (the greatest hits, really) with cool covers and forewords by actual, thinking writers. Praise the Lord.
Visionaire 28: The Bible, which, at (at least) Ł99, means rendering a helluva lot of Caesars for the gospel according to Mario (Testino) and Wolfgang (Tillmans). (Warning from an owner: You may worship Philippe Starck, but, at the final judgment, he's gonna pay for making the plastic Bible case covered with navels--navels which collect 100x more lint than your own. Repent ye, Philippe, repent ye.)
But if it's bible pushers you're interested in, there are only two (well, technically three) people to see: