Books, Design and Culture
It’s been a while since I posted about author, illustrator and designer Coralie Bickford-Smith. In a new video for Penguin Books she talks about her creative process, her work on the original Clothbound Classics, and Penguin’s new Little Clothbound editions.
Comments closedIn this really lovely video, designer, author and artist Coralie Bickford-Smith explains how to become an illustrator (even if you are shy!):
Coralie’s latest book, The Song of the Tree, was published in the UK last month.
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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At The Guardian, writer, illustrator and Penguin Books designer Coralie Bickford-Smith talks about her working day:
When I am at Penguin I design covers for classic literature. When I am at home I write, illustrate and design my own books. With my books I control every aspect, right down to the colour of the thread that binds them together.
On Penguin days I am out of the house and on the bus by 6.50am. I use my travel time to read books I am working on. Speedy morning buses, when the streets are clear, are the best. Starting early means I am at my desk a couple of hours before the office bustle. A quiet time to get some ideas down. I work solidly till 4pm and I jump back on the bus to read.
Each role feeds into the other nicely. I am never without inspiration. Due to my obsessive nature and lack of confidence, I have to read absolutely everything I design a cover for. I worry that people will scream at me for misrepresenting their beloved text. I’m sure many designers are the same. Time-consuming, yes, but the upshot is a stream of amazing ideas pouring into my brain that I can squirrel away for future projects.
Coralie’s new picture book The Worm and the Bird, published by Particular Books, is available now.
Comments closedBusy, busy October… here are this month’s book covers of note…
Aluta by Adwoa Badoe; design Michael Solomon; cover art Shonagh Rae (Groundwood / September 2016)
American Ulysses by Ronald C. White; design Eric White; photograph © Colorized History, colorized by Mads Madsen (Random House / October 2016)
The Architecture of Neoliberalism by Douglas Spencer; design Daniel Benneworth-Gray (Bloomsbury / October 2016)
The Best American Comics 2016 edited by Roz Chast; illustration by Marc Bell; design by Christopher Moisan (Mariner / October 2016)
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 edited by Rache Kushner; illustration and lettering by Jillian Tamaki; design by Mark Robinson (Mariner / October 2016)
The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier; design Jamie Keenan (Virago / October 2016)
Virago’s other new du Maurier reissues are also really nice:
I wrote about the series last year.
Chance in Evolution edited by Grant Ramsey & Charles H. Pence; design by Jenny Volvovski (University of Chicago Press / October 2016)
Darktown by Thomas Mullen; design by Craig Fraser (Little, Brown / September 2016)
Another entry for the sideways covers collection (although this is not a first for Mullen’s books — the US paperback edition of The Last Town on Earth, published by Random House in 2007, also has a sideways photograph on the cover).1
Oh, and the cover of the US edition of Darktown (published by Atria in September) was designed by Laywan Kwan.
Don’t I Know You? by Marni Jackson; design by Phil Pascuzzo (Flatiron / September 2016)
A Gambler’s Anatomy by Jonathan Lethem; design by Gray318 (Doubleday / October 2016)
Ghostland by Colin Dickey; cover art by Jon Contino (Viking / October 2016)
Himself by Jess Kidd; design by Pete Adlington (Canongate / October 2016)
How to See by David Salle; design by Peter Mendelsund (W.W. Norton / October 2016)
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole; design by Alex Merto; photograph Teju Cole (Random House / August 2016)
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; design by Jack Smyth; illustration Pietari Posti (Virago / October 2016)
The Mothers by Brit Bennett; design by Rachel Wiley (Riverhead / October 2016)
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra; design Jonathan Pelham (Granta / October 2016)
Nayon Cho’s design for the US edition of Multiple Choice, published by Penguin US, was featured in July’s covers post.
Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Allen Lane / October 2016)
This goes rather nicely with Coralie’s design for Rovelli’s previous book Seven Brief Lessons in Physics:
Results May Vary by Bethany Chase; design by Misa Erder (Ballantine / August 2016)
Sirius by Jonathan Crown; cover art by Pascal Blanchet (Scribner / October 2016)
That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration by Alan Shapiro; design by Isaac Tobin (University of Chicago Press / October 2016)
The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang; design by Kimberly Glyder (Houghton Mifflin / October 2016)
The Wealth of Humans by Ryan Avent; design by Tom Etherington (Allen Lane / September 2016)
Who Killed Piet Barol? by Richard Mason; design Sinem Erkas (Weidenfeld & Nicolson / September 2016)
Wrecked by Maria Padian; design by Liz Casal (Algonquin Young Readers / October 2016)
It’s the first week of May (whaaaat?), so it must be time for some new book covers…
Barren Cove by Ariel S. Winter; design by Chelsea McGuckin (Atria / May 2016)
Congratulations on Everything by Nathan Whitlock; cover art by Gary Taxali (ECW / May 2016)
Even the Dead by Benjamin Black; design by David Shoemaker (Henry Holt / January 2016)
The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood; design Jamie Keenan (Penguin Press / May 2016)
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman; design by Robin Bilardello (Harper / May 2016)
Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman; design by Jack Smyth (Little, Brown / May 2016)
The Haters by Jesse Andrews; design by Chad W. Beckerman and Will Staehle (Abrams / April 2016)
How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley; design by Chris Ferrante (Princeton University Press / May 2016)
Industries of the Future by Alec Ross; design by Jason Heuer (Simon & Schuster / February 2016)
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett; design by Keith Hayes (Little, Brown & Co. / May 2016)
The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty; design by Alex Kirby (Faber & Faber / May 2016)
Leviathan by Carmine Starnino; design Andrew Steeves (Gaspereau / April 2016)
Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien; design by Keith Hayes (Little, Brown & Co. / April 2016)
Macroeconomics by Ben Fine and Ourania Dimakou; design by David Drummond (Pluto Press / May 2016)
Microeconomics by Ben Fine; design by David Drummond (Pluto Press / May 2016)
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Penguin / May 2016)
The Mother by Yvvette Edwards; design by Robin Bilardello (Amistad / May 2016)
My Mad Fat Diary by Rae Earl; design by Olga Grlic (St. Martin’s Griffin / April 2016)
Once and for All by Delmore Schwartz; design Erik Carter (New Directions / May 2016)
The Outside Lands by Hannah Kohler; design by Ami Smithson / Cabin London (Picador / May 2016)
A Perfect Life by Eileen Pollack; design by Allison Saltzman (Ecco / May 2016)
Prodigals by Greg Jackson; design by Rodrigo Corral (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / March 2016)
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel; design by Charles Brock / Faceout Studio (Del Ray / April 2016)
Where the Bird Sings Best by Alejandro Jodorowsky; design by Richard Ljoenes (Restless Books / April 2016)
Why They Run the Way They Do by Susan Perabo; design Alison Forner (Simon & Schuster / February 2016)
Congratulations to all the winners and shortlisted covers at the third annual Academy of British Cover Design Awards! Make sure you read Daniel Benneworth-Gray‘s report on last night’s “shindig” at the Creative Review, but in the meantime, all the winning designs are below:
The Fox and the Star, written, illustrated and designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Particular Books / August 2015)
Asking For It by Louise O’Neill; design by Kate Gaughran (Quercus / September 2015)
A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar; design by Ben Summers (Hodder / March 2015)
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum; design by Jo Thompson; illustration by Maricor/Maricar (Mantle / March 2015)
Memoirs of a Dipper by Nell Leyshon; design by Gray318 (Fig Tree / June 2015)
Whisky Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer; design by Richard Bravery (Penguin / June 2015)
Egg by Blanche Vaughan; design by Clare Skeats (Wiedenfeld & Nicolson / March 2015)
Great Northern? by Arthur Ransome; design James Paul Jones; illustration by Pietari Posti (Vintage / March 2015)
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy; design by Sinem Erkas (Orion / September 2015)
I Love Dick by Chris Kraus; design by Peter Dyer (Profile Books / November 2015)
You can see all last year’s winners here.
Comments closedBack in 2014, there were signs that book cover design was maybe, just maybe, having a moment. Suzanne Dean was on the BBC. Peter Mendelsund was on… well, everything. But if 2015 has felt a little quiet by comparison, there were still plenty of reasons to be cheerful. This year’s list includes over 120 covers by 60 designers, and there is little doubt in my mind that this really is a golden time for book design.
Thank you to all the art directors, designers, and publicists who have supported the blog this year, and who make posts like this possible. Thanks too, to my local bookstore TYPE for letting me browse their shelves.
Act of God by Jill Ciment; design by Janet Hansen (Pantheon / March 2015 )
Also designed by Janet Hansen:
Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman; design by Na Kim (Scribner / July 2015)
Angry Youth Comix by Johnny Ryan; design by Keeli McCarthy (Fantagraphics / February 2015)
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry; design by Rafi Romaya (Canongate / October 2015)
Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan; design by John Gall (New Directions / September 2015)
Boo by Neil Smith; design by Isabel Urbina Peña (Vintage / May 2015)
Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen; design by design Suzanne Dean; illustration Carnovsky (Harvill Secker / June 2015)
(Oliver Munday’s cover design for the US edition of the Book of Numbers published by Random House is also great.)
Also designed by Suzanne Dean:
Boring Girls by Sara Taylor; design by David A. Gee (ECW Press / April 2015)
Also designed by David A. Gee:
Bream Gives Me Hiccups design by Jean Jullien (Grove Atlantic / September 2015)
The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan by Samo Tomšič; design Keetra Dean Dixon (Verso / December 2015)
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector; design by Paul Sahre (New Directions / August 2015)
Curiosity by Alberto Manguel; design by Sonia Shannon (Yale University Press / March 2015)
Dismantling by Brian DeLeeuw; design by Zoe Norvell (Plume / April 2015)
Also designed by Zoe Norvell:
Drinking in America by Susan Cheever; design by Rex Bonomelli (Twelve Books / October 2015)
The Double Life of Liliane by Lily Tuck; design by Abby Weintraub (Grove Atlantic / September 2015)
Early Stories of Truman Capote; design by David Pearson (Penguin / November 2015)
Also designed by David Pearson:
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper; design by Gray318 (Penguin / January 2015)
Also designed by Gray318:
Fear of Dying by Erica Jong; design by Olga Grlic (St. Martin’s Press / September 2015)
Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert; design by Patti Ratchford; illustration by Eric Nyquist (Bloomsbury / February 2015)
Eric’s illustrated cover for The Best American Non-Required Reading 2015 is also spectacular.
The First Book by Jesse Zuba; design by Amanda Weiss (Princeton University Press / November 2015)
Also designed by Amanda Weiss:
The Fox and the Star, written, illustrated and designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Particular Books / August 2015)
Also designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith:
Generation by Paula McGrath; design by Harriet Sleigh (JM Originals / July 2015)
Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce; design by Grace Han; cover art by Kate Bergin (Riverhead / January 2015)
Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum; design by Gabrielle Bordwin (Random House / March 2015)
Hotels of North America by Rick Moody; design by Keith Hayes (Little, Brown & Co. / November 2015)
How to Run a Government by Michael Barber; design by Barnbrook (Allen Lane / March 2015)
I Am Sorry to Think I Raised a Timid Son by Kent Russell; design by Peter Mendelsund; hand lettering by Janet Hansen; photography by George Baier IV (Knopf / March 2015)
Also designed by Peter Mendelsund:
The Italians by John Hooper; design by Nicholas Misani (Viking / January 2015)
Also designed by Nick Misani:
KL by Nikolaus Wachsmann; design by Alex Merto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / April 2015)
Also designed by Alex Merto:
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin; design by Justine Anweiler; photography Jonathan Simpson (Picador UK / September 2015)
Also designed by Justine Anweiler:
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill; design by Oliver Munday (Pantheon / November 2015)
Also designed by Oliver Munday:
Mislaid by Nell Zink; design by Allison Saltzman (Ecco / May 2015)
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari; design by Jay Shaw; photograph by Ruvan Wijesooriya (Penguin / June 2015)
Motorcycles I’ve Loved by Lily Brooks-Dalton; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / April 2015)
Also designed by Rachel Willey:
Munich Airport by Greg Baxter; design by Anne Twomey (Twelve Books / January 2015)
Muse by Jonathan Galassi; design by Gabriele Wilson (Knopf / June 2015)
The Musical Brain by César Aira; design by Rodrigo Corral and Zak Tebbal (New Directions / March 2015)
This is actually a rather special lenticular cover that imitates the effect of flashing neon.
Also from Rodrigo Corral:
Of Beards and Men by Christopher Oldstone-Moore; design Isaac Tobin (University of Chicago Press / December 2015)
One Day in the Life of the English Language by Frank L. Cioffi; design by Chris Ferrante (Princeton University Press / March 2015)
The Only Street in Paris by Elaine Schiolino; design by Strick&Williams (W.W. Norton / November 2015)
Also from Strick&Williams:
On the Way by Cyn Vargas; design by Alban Fischer (Curbside Splendor / April 2015)
Also designed by Alban Fischer:
Paulina and Fran by Rachel B. Glaser; illustration Kaethe Butcher; typography Nina LoSchiavo (Harper Perennial / September 2015)
PawPaw by Andrew Moore; design by Kimberly Glyder (Chelsea Green / September 2015 )
Also designed by Kimberly Glyder:
The Poser by Jacob Rubin; design by Will Staehle (Viking / March 2015)
Also designed by Will Staehle:
Pretty Is by Maggie Mitchell; design by Lucy Kim (Henry Holt / July 2015)
Real Life Rock by Greil Marcus; design by Rich Black (Yale University Press / October 2015)
Racism by Mike Cole; design by Daniel Benneworth-Gray (Pluto Press / November 2015)
The Racer by David Millar; design by James Paul Jones; photograph by Nadav Kander (Yellow Jersey / October 2015)
Also designed by James Paul Jones:
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks; design by Jaya Miceli (Viking / October 2015)
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson; design by Matt Dorfman (Riverhead / March 2015)
The Sphinx by Anne Garréta; design by Anna Zylicz (Deep Vellum / May 2015)
Also designed by Anna Zylicz:
Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth by Kevin Ovenden; design by Jamie Keenan (Pluto Press / September 2015)
Also designed by Jamie Keenan:
Trans by Juliet Jacques; Design and illustration by Joanna Walsh (Verso / September 2015)
The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber; design by Christopher Brian King (Melville House / February 2015)
The Vegetarian by Han Kang; design by Tom Darracott (Portobello / January 2015)
The Veiled Sun by Paul Schaffer; design by David Drummond (Véhicule Press / January 2015)
Also designed by David Drummond:
Weathering by Lucy Wood; design by Greg Heinimann (Bloomsbury / January 2015)
Also designed by Greg Heinimann:
Whisky Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer; design by Richard Bravery (Penguin / June 2015)
Richard’s white, black, and orange cover for London Overground by Iain Sinclair published by Hamish Hamilton is also fun.
The Woman Who Read Too Much by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani; design by Anne Jordan & Mitch Goldstein (Stanford University Press / April 2015)
Also designed by Anne Jordan & Mitch Goldstein:
Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo; design by Richard Green (Allen Lane / June 2015)
Something of a bumper post this month — a real mix of approaches, and a number YA titles to boot. Enjoy!
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector; design by Paul Sahre (New Directions / August 2015)
Consumed by David Cronenberg; design by David A. Gee (Penguin Canada / September 2015)
Cooking as Fast as I Can by Cat Cora; design by Janet Hansen (Scribner / September 2015)
The Criminal Alphabet by Noel ‘Razor’ Smith; design by Edward Bettison (Penguin / August 2015)
Cut Both Ways by Carrie Mesrobian; design by Erin Fitzsimmons (HarperCollins / September 2015)
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy; design by Aurora Parlagreco; illustration by Daniel Stolle (Balzer + Bray / September 2015)
Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon; design by N. C. Sousa (Delacorte / September 2015)
Fake Fruit Factory by Patrick Wensink; design by Alban Fischer (Curbside Splendor / September 2015)
Fear of Dying by Erica Jong; design by Olga Grlic (St. Martin’s Press / September 2015)
Generation by Paula McGrath; design by Harriet Sleigh (JM Originals / July 2015)
Love Love by Sung J. Woo; design by Jennifer Heuer (Soft Skull / September 2015)
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin; design by Justine Anweiler; photography Jonathan Simpson (Picador UK / Septembr 2015)
(You can read about the design process for this cover here)
The Man Who Remembered the Moon by David Hull; design by David Drummond (Dumgrad Books / September 2015)
The New Time and Space by John Potts; design by Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Macmillan / September 2015)
Night Owls by Jenn Bennett; design by Leo Nickolls (Simon & Schuster / September 2015)
Rooms by Lauren Oliver; cover art by Jeffrey Alan Love (Ecco / September 2015)
The Same City by Luisgé Martín; design by Simon Pates (Hispabooks / September 2015)
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Allen Lane / September 2015)
Symphony for the City of the Dead by M. T. Anderson; design by Matt Roeser; illustration by Kikuo Johnson (Candlewick / September 2015)
Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth by Kevin Ovenden; design by Jamie Keenan (Pluto Press / September 2015)
Unbuttoning America by Ardis Cameron; design by Kimberly Glyder; illustration by Al Moore (Cornell University Press / May 2015)1
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman; illustration by Teagan White (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / September 2015)
Wall Flower by Rita Kuczynski; design by David Drummond (University of Toronto Press / August 2015)
Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones; design by Alex Merto (Mulholland Books / May 2015)
At the Penguin blog, the remarkable Coralie Bickford-Smith talks about The Fox and the Star, a new book she has written, illustrated and designed:
The inspiration comes from a place of personal experience that I wanted to document. It’s a life lesson that I found hard to learn; one of love, loss and the ability to adapt to the constant changes that are a part of life. On a visual level my inspiration came from my design heroes, William Blake and William Morris. My love of pattern and book design is evident in the illustrations.
It looks absolutely beautiful as you can see:
And here’s Coralie talking about the project:
The Fox and the Star is available from Particular Books August 27.
Comments closedBook designers, you do amazing work. Thank you. I am especially grateful to all the designers and art directors (not to mention publicists and other publishing folk) who have shared their wisdom, provided me with images, and helped me with design credits this year — these posts would not be possible without you. I also want thank my fellow book design bloggers, notably Book Covrs, Booketing, and Caustic Cover Critic, for their sterling work, and my local bookstores, Type, Book City on the Danforth, Ben McNally Books, and Indigo Bay & Bloor, for letting me browse their shelves.
Here are my covers of 2014:
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews; design by Sunra Thompson (McSweeney’s / November 2014)
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu; design by Isabel Urbina Peña (Knopf / March 2014)
Bark by Lorrie Moore; design by Carol Devine Carson; photography by Josef Sudek (Knopf / February 2014)
The Book of Heaven by Patricia Storace; design by Linda Huang (Pantheon / February 2014)
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber; art direction and design Rafi Romaya; illustration Yehrin Tong (Canongate / October 2014)
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt; design by Christopher Lin (Simon & Schuster / March 2014)
Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall by Will Chancellor; design by Richard Ljoenes (HarperCollins / July 2014)
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes; design by Keith Hayes (Mulholland Books / September 2014)
California by Edan Lepucki; design Julianna Lee (Little Brown & Co. / July 2014)
Chop Chop by Simon Wroe; design by Ben Wiseman (Penguin / April 2014)
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine; design by Luke Bird (Faber & Faber / May 2014)
The Corpse Exhibition by Hassan Blasim; design by Jason Ramirez (Penguin / February 2014)
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill; design by Gray318 (Granta / March 2014)
Dog Ear by Jim Johnstone; design by David Drummond (Signal Editions / May 2014)
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison; design by Tom Darracott (Granta / June 2014)
Enlightenment 2.0 by Joseph Heath; design by David A. Gee (HarperCollins / April 2014)
Forensic Songs by Mike McCormack; design by Jason Booher (SOHO / July 2014)
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson; design by Allison Saltzman; illustration by Bryan Nash Gill (Ecco / June 2014)
Friendship by Emily Gould; design by Jennifer Carrow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / July 2014)
Fullblood Arabian by Osama Alomar; design by Paul Sahre (New Directions / March 2014)
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride; design by Donna Payne (Faber & Faber / April 2014)
Happy are the Happy by Yesmina Reza; design by Suzanne Dean (Harvill Secker / July 2014)
The Histories by Herodotus, translated by Tom Holland; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Penguin Classics / September 2014)
The Intervals of Cinema by Jacques Rancière; design by Jessica Svendsen (Verso / October 2014)
Karate Chop by Dorthe Nors; design by Carol Hayes (Graywolf February 2014)
Leaving the Sea by Ben Marcus; design by Peter Mendelsund (Knopf / January 2014)
And here it is side by side with 2012’s The Flame Alphabet:
The Liar’s Wife by Mary Gordon; design by Linda Huang (Pantheon / August 2014)
Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce; design by Emily Mahon; illustration by Rizon Parein (Doubleday / September 2014)
The Man Who Couldn’t Stop; design by Katie Tooke (Picador / April 2014)
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; design by Jamie Keenan (W. W. Norton / February 2014)
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead; design by Elena Giavaldi (Crown / January 2014)
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts; design by Isabelle De Cat (Penguin / October 2014)
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee; design by Helen Yentus; lettering Jason Booher (Riverhead / January 2014)
Our Poison Horse by Derrick Brown; design by Jennifer Heuer (Write Bloody / October 2014)
Radio Benjamin edited by Lecia Rosenthal; design by Isaac Tobin (Verso / October 2014)
Russians by Gregory Feifer; design by Catherine Casalino (Twelve Books / February 2014)
The Scarborough by Michael Lista; design by David Drummond (Véhicule Press / September 2014)
The Secret World of Oil by Ken Silverstein; design by Matt Dorfman (Verso / May 2014)
Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball; design by Peter Mendelsund (Pantheon / January 2014)
The Silent History by Eli Horowitz, Kevin Moffett, Matthew Derby; design by Oliver Munday (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / June 2014)
Song for an Approaching Storm by Peter Fröberg Idling; design by David Pearson (Pushkin Press / March 2014)
Specter of Capital by Joseph Vogl; design by Anne Jordan (Stamford University Press / October 2014)
Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux; design by Nayon Cho; illustration by Mark Stutzman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / February 2014)
Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter; design by Charlotte Strick; photograph by Natalie Dirks (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / November 2014)
Vanishing by Gerard Woodward; design by Jamie Keenan (Picador UK / March 2014)
Wittgenstein Jr by Lars Iyers; design by Christopher Brian King (Melville House / September 2014)
Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle; design by Timothy Goodman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / September 2014)
Area X by Jeff VanderMeer; design by Rodrigo Corral (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / November 2014)
Young Skins: Stories by Colin Barrett; design by James Paul Jones (Jonathan Cape / March 2014)
Your Face in Mine by Jess Row; design by Oliver Munday (Riverhead / August 2014)
Thanks all.
A beautiful set of ‘Pocket Hardbacks’ designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith will be available from Penguin Classics next month. The trim size is 104mm x 168mm (or about 4″ x 6½”):
