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Published March 8, 2016

52 Women Book Cover Designers

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

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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)

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

This Will Be Difficult to Explain design Chin Yee Lai

Chin-Yee Lai

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In a Land of Paper God design Yeti Lambregts

Yeti Lambregts

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Emily Mahon

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Childrens Home design Jaya Micelli; Art by Valerie Hegarty

Jaya Miceli

Sixty design by Terri Nimmo

Terri Nimmo

Unabrow by Una Lamarche; design by Zoe Norvell (Plume / March 2015)

Anything You Want by Derek Sivers; design by Zoe Norvell (Portfolio / September 2015)

Zoe Norvell

Welcome to the Circus design Natalie Olsen

Natalie Olsen

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Design Lauren Panepinto

Fesign Lauren Panepinto, illustration by David Palumbo

Lauren Panepinto

A Good Book design Ingrid Paulson

Ingrid Paulson

all-our-names

Boo by Neil Smith; design by Isabel Urbina Peña (Vintage / May 2015)

Isabel Urbina Peña

Redeployment design Rafi Romaya

Design Rafi Romaya, illustration Yehrin Tong

Rafi Romaya

Canada design by Allison Saltzman

Allison Saltzman

Year I Met You design Heike Schussler

design by Heike Schussler; illustration by Gianmarco Magnani / Silence Television

Heike Schüssler

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Clare Skeats

A Year of Marvellous Ways design by Amy Smithson

Ami Smithson / Cabin

flamethrowers design Charlotte Strick

Charlotte Strick

Toronto Cooks design Jess Sullivan

Jess Sullivan

Longitude design Jo Walker

Jo Walker

Americanah

Abby Weintraub

Living on Paper design by Amanda Weiss

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

Barbara the Slut by Lauren Holmes; design by Rachel Willey (Riverhead / August 2015)

motorcycles ive loved design by rachel willey

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

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Gabriele Wilson

Design Megan Wilson, photograph Saul Leiter

Design Megan Wilson, photograph by Louise Rosskam

Design Megan Wilson

Megan Wilson

All the Birds design by Joan Wong

Joan Wong

Summerlong design Sara Wood

The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman; design by Sara Wood (St. Martin’s Press / March 2016)

Sara Wood

MythOfSis

On Such a Full Sea design by Helen Yentus

Helen Yentus

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Published August 14, 2014

Book Cover Design is a Fine Art

It used to be enough for a book to idly stand out in a bookstore. Nowadays, however, new books must jostle for attention with everything. Thousands of distractions are just a click away. Is it any wonder that book-cover design is more important than ever?

In today’s Globe and Mail, I talks about recent trends in book cover design and pick a few of my favourite covers from the year so far. If you live in Canada you can find a lovely-looking print version of the article in the Arts pages.

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Published May 5, 2014

Triangles, Quadrangles, Shards, and Fragments

This is my last post on book covers and triangles — for the time being at least. I hope you’ve enjoyed this three-sided, three-post design diversion (you can see the previous posts here and here):

The Adjacent by Christopher Priest; design by Martin Stiff, Amazing15 (Titan Books April 2014) 1

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The Book of Heaven by Patricia Storace; design by Linda Huang (Pantheon February 2014)

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The Books of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon; design by Jonathan Pelham (Picador February 2014)

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A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough; design by Dan Mogford (Unbound May 2013)

Close to the Machine by Ellen Ullman; design by Clare Skeats (Pushkin Press March 2013)

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Connectome by Sebastian Seung; design by Matthew Young (Penguin June 2013)

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Contradance by John Peck; design by Natalie F. Smith (University of Chicago Press October 2011)

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Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky; design by Peter Mendelsund (Vintage August 2004)

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Gun Dealers’ Daughter by Gina Apostol; design by Jaya Miceli (W. W. Norton August 2012)

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November 1916 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux August 2014)

August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux August 2014)

Stories and Prose Poems by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Farrar, Straus & Giroux November 2014)

Design by Oliver Munday

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The Scandal of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton; design by Matthew Young (Penguin

Snowdrops by A. D. Miller; design by Emily Mahon (Doubleday February 2011)

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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells; design by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Penguin May 2012)

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We Are Animals by Justin Torres; design by Gray318 (Granta March 2012)

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Your Face in Mine by Jess Row; design by Oliver Munday (Riverhead August 2014)

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Published February 27, 2014

Recent Covers of Note February 2014 Edition

It’s almost March and I’ve just realised that I haven’t posted very many book covers this year. To make up for this lapse, here are ten of my favourite covers from the last few months:

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All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu; design by Isabel Urbina Peña

book-of-heaven
The Book of Heaven by Patricia Storace; design by Linda Huang

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The Corpse Exhibition by Hassan Blasim; design by Jason Ramirez