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More New and Recent Book Covers of Note

So is this a thing now? I don’t know. You folks seem to like these posts, so maybe… (but probably not because a lot of designers I really like just don’t updated their portfolios that often—you know who you are… cold, hard, stare)…

Here are half-a-dozen covers that have caught my eye recently:

Carnival by Rawi Hage; design by Richard Bravery

I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow by Jonathan Goldstein; design by Michel Vrana (I think this is actually from last year, but I saw it recently and I really like it. If I’d been paying better attention, it might well have made my 2012 list—maybe next to this!).

The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay; design by Charlotte Strick (also not that recent, but charlotte talks about her design process here).

Idiopathy by Sam Byers; design by Joanna Neborksy (Jonathan Gibbs wrote about this cover in his regular book design column for The Independent a couple of months ago, and funnily enough I believe the aforementioned Charlotte Strick was the AD on this)

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon; design by Evan Gaffney (this on the other hand is not out until September!)

 The Hamlet Doctrine by Simon Critchley; design by David A. Gee (also out in September)

Have a great weekend!

4 Comments

  1. Beautiful books, but that Carnival is just too derivative of Mendelsund’s The Flame Alphabet (and his Leaving the Sea).

  2. The Carnival cover looks like The Flame Alphabet. I was surprised it wasn’t the same designer.

    • Dan

      The debt Carnival owes to The Flame Alphabet and Peter Mendelsund is quite apparent, and the inspiration is openly acknowledged by the designer. Nevertheless I still think the jacket design of Carnival is interesting in its own right and worthy of attention. (It is a minor point, but perhaps it is also worth mentioning the Peter’s designs for Ben Marcus are the US covers, whereas Richard’s design for Hage, is the UK cover).

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