Books, Design and Culture
Canadian designer Steve St. Pierre has returned with a new set of “fictional book covers for unwritten memoirs”.
You can see some of Steve’s covers from the original 2016 ‘Jacket Everyday’ project, sadly no longer online, here.
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Last month, Canadian designer Steve St. Pierre started asking people what the title of their life story would be and creating book jackets for the replies. The results are both brilliant and weird.
Leah Collins recently talked to Steve about his project for CBC Arts:
“I love book cover design,” St. Pierre says, and the thing that makes it special, he says, is that a successful cover is “kind of like a blind date.”
“You’re trying to essentially put charm into a book cover,” he says. But unlike drinks with some random from Tinder, the relationship you have with a novel is likely going to be longer. Probably way more meaningful, too.
“It’s that negotiation, trying to be charming and trying to get someone to just think twice about what’s in front of them,” says St. Pierre. “That, to me, is my favourite part of designing these things.”
For the record, Steve just asked me to contribute a title. I’m thinking about it.
