A quick update this month. Enjoy…
The Book of Eels by Patrick Svensson; design by Grady McFerrin (Ecco / May 2020)
Broadway for Paul by Vincent Katz; design by Janet Hansen; photograph by Beat Streuli (Knopf / April 2020)
Brown Album by Porochista Khakpour; design by Joan Wong (Vintage / May 2020)
This cover immediately reminded me of Helen Crawford-White’s cover A Half-Baked Idea by Olivia Potts published last year…
And then I thought maybe it was a nod to the cover of The White Album by Joan Didion, published in 1979 (the reissue below uses the original cover), and which Fonts in Use informs me uses the typeface Pistilli Roman. But maybe I am over thinking it…?
I was also reminded of these two recent covers, so maybe it is just a thing…?
All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad; design by Lynn Buckley (Dutton / May 2020) 
You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat; design by Nicole Caputo (Catapult / June 2020)
A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet; design by David High (W. W. Norton / May 2020)
Lydian for Lydia…
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio; design by Matthew Flute (McClelland & Stewart / April 2020)
I believe this is only available as an ebook, which seems a bit of shame. It would be nice to see in print. The cover does remind me of something else though. I can’t think what exactly. The best I could come up with was Tyler Comrie‘s cover for The Unwanted by Michael Dobbs. But I feel like there is cover that does something similar with a painting as a background? Possibly I’m just imagining it.
Oh and for those of you who are interested, the design team at Penguin Random House Canada have started posting their work to Instagram as one_last_tweak.
Fracture by André Neuman; design by June Park (Farrar Straus & Giroux / May 2020)
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall; design by Lynn Buckley (Viking / February 2020)
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli; design by Oliver Munday (New Directions / May 2020)
Out of the Shadows by Walt Odets; design by Tom Etherington; photograph by Wolfgang Tillmans (Penguin / May 2020)
I love this image. I believe it was used on the cover of the hardcover in the UK too.
Pelosi by Molly Ball; design by Adalis Martinez (Henry Holt & Co / May 2020)
Pew by Catherine Lacey; design by Luke Bird (Granta / May 2020)
Pew and Pelosi make lovely use of white space…
A Registry of My Passage Upon The Earth by Daniel Mason; design by Gregg Kulick (Little, Brown & Co / May 2020)
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg; design by Linda Huang (Vintage / May 2020)
The cover of the hardcover was designed by Tyler Comrie, with an illustration by Justin Metz
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg; design by Tyler Comrie; illustration Justin Metz (Knopf / June)
Very Important People by Ashley Mears; design by Amanda Weiss (Princeton University Press / May 2020)
Walking One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge; design by Linda Huang and Oliver Munday (Vintage / April 2020)
This reminded me Gerhard Richter’s blurry landscape paintings.
The hardcover was designed by Jenny Carrow.
Wicked Enchantment by Wanda Coleman; design by Rachel Willey (Black Sparrow Press / April 2020)
