If you follow the Casual Optimist on Twitter, you will know that a couple of weeks ago design studio Aishima asked people to tweet about inspiring women graphic designers using the hashtag #celebratewomen. As today is International Women’s Day, I thought I would follow up my #celebratewomen tweets with a visual list of 52 inspiring women book cover designers (one for every week of the year!) — from influential veterans whose work I’ve admired for years to junior designers that have just appeared on my radar.
The names of all 52 designers can be found at the end of the post. With a few more hours in a day the list could easily have been many times longer, so apologies to anyone I have overlooked. Please let me know who you would’ve included in the comments or on Twitter.
All This Has Nothing To Do With Me; design by Justine Anweiler; illustration Daphne van den Heuvel
Justine Anweiler
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Allen Lane / September 2015)
Coralie Bickford-Smith
Kelly Blair
Gabrielle Bordwin
Lizzy Bromley
Lynn Buckley
Nicole Caputo
Jennifer Carrow
Carol Devine Carson
Catherine Casalino
A Fairy Tale by Jonas T. Bengtsson; design by Allison Colpoys
Allison Colpoys
Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun; design by Julia Connolly
Julia Connolly
Eleanor Crow
Lucy Ruth Cummins
Suzanne Dean
Barbara deWilde
Sinem Erkas
Erin Fitzsimmons
Alison Forner
Elena Giavaldi
Worthy by Denice Turner; design by Kimberly Glyder (University of Nevada Press / April 2015)
Kimberly Glyder
Carin Goldberg
Jenny Grigg
A Bad Character by Deepti Kapoor; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / January 2015)
Act of God design Janet Hansen
design Janet Hansen
Janet Hansen
Jennifer Heuer
Karen Horton
Linda Huang
Souffles-Anfas edited by Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio; design Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein (Stanford University Press / November 2015)
Capitalism in the Web of Life by Jason W. Moore; design by Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein (Verso / August 2015)
The Woman Who Read Too Much design Anne Jordan & Mitch Goldstein
Anne Jordan
Chin-Yee Lai
Yeti Lambregts
Emily Mahon
Jaya Miceli
Terri Nimmo
Anything You Want by Derek Sivers; design by Zoe Norvell (Portfolio / September 2015)
Zoe Norvell
Natalie Olsen
Design Lauren Panepinto
Design Lauren Panepinto
Fesign Lauren Panepinto, illustration by David Palumbo
Lauren Panepinto
Ingrid Paulson
Boo by Neil Smith; design by Isabel Urbina Peña (Vintage / May 2015)
Isabel Urbina Peña
Design Rafi Romaya, illustration Yehrin Tong
Rafi Romaya
Allison Saltzman
design by Heike Schussler; illustration by Gianmarco Magnani / Silence Television
Heike Schüssler
Clare Skeats
Ami Smithson / Cabin
Charlotte Strick
Jess Sullivan
Jo Walker
Abby Weintraub
The Little Big Number by Dirk Philipsen; design by Amanda Weiss ( Princeton University Press / June 2015)
Terrified by Christopher A. Bail; design by Amanda Weiss (Princeton University Press / January 2015)
Amanda Weiss
Discontent and its Civilizations by Mohsin Hamid; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / February 2015)
Witches of America by Alex Mar; design by Rachel Willey (Sarah Crichton Books / Ocotber 2015)
Rachel Willey
Gabriele Wilson
Design Megan Wilson, photograph by Louise Rosskam
Design Megan Wilson
Megan Wilson
Joan Wong
The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman; design by Sara Wood (St. Martin’s Press / March 2016)
Sara Wood
Helen Yentus
- Justine Anweiler
- Coralie Bickford-Smith
- Kelly Blair
- Gabrielle Bordwin
- Lizzy Bromley
- Lynn Buckley
- Nicole Caputo
- Jennifer Carrow
- Carol Devine Carson
- Catherine Casalino
- Allison Colpoys
- Eleanor Crow
- Lucy Ruth Cummins
- Suzanne Dean
- Barbara deWilde
- Sinem Erkas
- Erin Fitzsimmons
- Alison Forner
- Elena Giavaldi
- Kimberly Glyder
- Carin Goldberg
- Jenny Grigg
- Janet Hansen
- Jennifer Heuer
- Karen Horton
- Linda Huang
- Anne Jordan
- Chin-Yee Lai
- Yeti Lambregts
- Emily Mahon
- Jaya Miceli
- Terri Nimmo
- Zoe Norvell
- Natalie Olsen
- Lauren Panepinto
- Ingrid Paulson
- Isabel Urbina Peña
- Rafi Romaya
- Allison Saltzman
- Heike Schüssler
- Clare Skeats
- Ami Smithson
- Charlotte Strick
- Jess Sullivan
- Jo Walker
- Abby Weintraub
- Rachel Willey
- Gabriele Wilson
- Megan Wilson
- Joan Wong
- Sara Wood
- Helen Yentus
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