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The Rest of the Best 2018

Happy New Year!

Before we move on to new books for 2019, here are some of the better end-of-year lists that looked back at book cover design in 2018…   

Paste were out of the gate early with a list of the 18 best book covers of 2018. 

The folks at Spine left it until right before Christmas to post their 2018 Book Covers We Loved, but they did do a nice video with designer Holly Dunn, highlighting a few of their favourites from the list:

In the most eagerly awaited list, Matt Dorfman chose his 12 covers of the year for the New York Times (although whoever wrote the “We think you can judge a year by its book covers” subhed owes Matt an apology).  

The Literary Hub asked 27 designers to share their favorite book covers of the year and came up with a list of 75 “covers of note” (where have I heard that before?), including a couple of covers I didn’t see anywhere else, which is always a pleasant surprise. 

Vulture posted a list of their 10 favourite covers with commentary from the designers. 

And, drawing on the lists from LitHub and Paste (and some other guy), Jason Kottke posted a short but sweet list of book covers for the year that included a couple of my favourites, Cherry designed by Janet Hansen and Circe designed by Will Staehle

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Spine Magazine Podcast: Coralie Bickford-Smith

Holly Dunn interviews designer, illustrator and author Coralie Bickford-Smith for the first episode of season 2 of the Spine Magazine podcast:

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SPINE Interview with Suzanne Dean

Designer Holly Dunn talks to Suzanne Dean, Creative Director at Vintage Books and one of the UK’s leading cover designers, for SPINE Magazine:

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