August 27, 2010
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Hornby Cover Versions — Some rather beautiful student work by Barcelona-based graphic designer Lucía Castro (although my inner-bookseller gets very twitchy at the thought of those soft off-white covers!). (via Cosa Visuales) Full of Refusals — Tom McCarthy interviewed for … Continue reading
July 19, 2010
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Jamie Keenan’s inspired cover for The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton, published by Vintage: Image courtesy of Vintage and Anchor Books Art Director John Gall. (Via @Pieratt and Book Cover Archive)
October 26, 2009
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The brilliant Helen Yentus has redesigned the covers of Chinua Achebe’s books for Anchor with illustrations and hand lettering by Edel Rodriguez who has some amazing sketches of her work on the series at her portfolio site. (Covers first seen … Continue reading
June 17, 2009
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Claustrophobic and Irrational — I love these elegantly understated designs by Rodrigo Corral and Christopher Brand Jason Ramirez for Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley books published by W.W. Norton. A Strategy For Authenticity — Don Linn, prolific Twitterer and publisher at The … Continue reading
March 24, 2009
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Lauded and linked to by everyone from The Guardian newspaper to the New Yorker blog (not to mention the really important folks like Drawn!, Kottke, We Made This, and Veer) the dazzling The Book Cover Archive is — as the … Continue reading