international womens day – The Casual Optimist

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.

Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller; design by Justine Anweiler (Picador / January 2015)

All This Has Nothing To Do With Me; design by Justine Anweiler; illustration Daphne van den Heuvel

Justine Anweiler

Jane Eyre Clothbound design Coralie Bickford Smith

Last Tycoon design Coralie Bickford Smith

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Allen Lane / September 2015)

Coralie Bickford-Smith

Aftermath design Kelly Blair

Kelly Blair

The Wall design Gabrielle Bordwin photograph John Gay

Gabrielle Bordwin

forever design Lizzy Bromley

Lizzy Bromley

On-the-Noodle-Road

Lynn Buckley

Curious design Nicole Caputo

Letters to a Young Therapist design Nicole Caputo

Nicole Caputo

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Jennifer Carrow

m train design carol devine carson

Carol Devine Carson

Girl-Who-Was-Saturday-Night

Catherine Casalino

Cat and Fiddle design Allison Colpoys

A Fairy Tale by Jonas T. Bengtsson; design by Allison Colpoys

Allison Colpoys

Stoner (hardback)

General Theory of Oblivion design by Julia Connolly

Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun; design by Julia Connolly

Julia Connolly

Holloway

Eleanor Crow

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Lucy Ruth Cummins

First Novel design Suzanne Dean photograph Stephen Banks

The Sens of an Ending design by Suzanne Dean

Suzanne Dean

Milk

Visit from the Goon Squad design Barbara deWilde

Barbara deWilde

tender-is-the-night

Sinem Erkas

Madness So Discreet design Erin Fitzsimmons

Erin Fitzsimmons

Dust to Dust design Alison Forner

Alison Forner

Seating Arrangements design Elena Giavaldi

Elena Giavaldi

barefoot queen design Kimberly Glyder

Worthy by Denice Turner; design by Kimberly Glyder (University of Nevada Press / April 2015)

Kimberly Glyder

Lopsided design by Carin Goldberg

Carin Goldberg

luminaries

Jenny Grigg

Voices in the Night by Steven Millhauser; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / April 2015)

A Bad Character by Deepti Kapoor; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / January 2015)

Act of God design Janet Hansen

design Janet Hansen

Janet Hansen

What the Family Needed

Jennifer Heuer

follow me design Karen Horton

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Karen Horton

book-of-heaven

Linda Huang

specter-of-capital

Souffles-Anfas edited by Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio; design Anne Jordan and Mitch Goldstein (Stanford University Press / November 2015)