FaceOut Books, updated every Monday, is a fascinating website about the practice of book cover design:
“This is not a blog to rip apart what we dislike—everyone has a different aesthetic. This is a blog about the challenges and outcomes of a project. We are here to teach and be taught by one another.”
The post from December 8th is by Charlotte Strick who designed the cover for Roberto Bolaño’s much lauded 2666 (pictured):
It’s a designer’s dream to have a mysterious, numerical title to work with. I was a big fan of Rodrigo Corral’s jacket design solution for “The Savage Detectives” (FSG, 2007), so that made it an even greater challenge to take on what is considered by many to be the late author’s “magnum opus”.