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Éditions du Panama Book Covers
The covers of these novels, published by Les éditions du Panama, are by Pierre di Sciullo, French graphic designer and typographer. I’m sure it’s a coincidence, but the last one is uncannily similar to...
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Comparing Covers of The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Speaking of Europa and their big hit The Elegance of the Hedgehog . . . It’s interesting to compare how a book’s cover design varies from country to country. For instance, here are, from left to right,...
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6 Hand-Lettered Book Covers
Sonya Hartnett, The Silver Donkey (UK hardcover — Walker Books, 2006) Steven Pinker, Hotheads (Penguin, 2005) [Designed by Smith & Gilmour; part of the gorgeous Pocket Penguin 70s series] Sherman...
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Books of a Feather
Here’s a little selection of beautiful book covers featuring birds. The Nightingales of Troy (paperback) by Alice Fulton (W.W. Norton, 2009) — Designed by Kelly Blair To See Every Bird on Earth: A...
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Ox-Tales Story Collection to Support Oxfam
Book-design afficionados are talking about Ox-Tales, a new four-volume set of story collections published to raise money for Oxfam. Each of the volumes takes one of the four elements as its theme....
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Totally Space Opera Series
I was glad to get a chance to see more photos of Orion Books’ “Totally Space Opera” series, designed by Sandra Zahirovic! They’re over at FaceOut Books, which has an interview with Sandra about her...
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AIGA Best of New England 2009
Among the winners at the 2009 AIGA BoNe (Best of New England) Show Awards was this series of books published by Boston Review with the MIT Press. The designers are Alex Camin and George Restrepo. The...
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Book-Design Blog Rundown
Caustic Cover Critic on Nicholas Motte’s covers for Dalkey Archive, with lots of nice pictures (I LOVE the liberal use of pink; Hot Pink, I hope you never go out of style!): And while you’re there, I...
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David Drummond’s Cover Designs for Véhicule Press
David Drummond is doing some very nice book cover designs for Montreal publisher Véhicule Press. Here are just a few highlights. (Andrew Hood, Pardon Our Monsters; Harry Thurston, Animals of My Own...
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Six Red Poetry Books
As a follow-up to my earlier Six Pink Poetry Books post, I present: Six Red Poetry Books! Fiona Tinwei Lam, Enter the Chrysanthemum. Designer: David Drummond. Naomi Guttman, Wet...
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Faber Poetry Typographical Covers
I love these Faber and Faber Poetry books, designed by Justus Oehler of Pentagram. This series uses color so beautifully, setting up the rule of three colors (one for the background, one for the...
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These Books Are Totally Glitchin’
This is an interesting idea for print-on-demand book covers and looks cool, too. Design student Michael Kosmicki created this series of covers as an entry in the 2009 D&AD Student Awards...
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Feedbooks Shows Free E-books Can Have Nice Covers
I started reading books on my iPod Touch a couple of months ago. One of the first things I downloaded (for Stanza) was a free version of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, which I’d never read before....
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Illustrator Laura Carlin for the Folio Society
I’m gazing longingly at the Folio Society website, particularly this lovely clothbound edition of Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier, illustrated by Laura Carlin. Here’s an interior illustration:...
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Borges’s Library of Babel
Back in April I posted about these beautiful novels published by Les éditions du Panama. The Paris-based publishing house went out of business in July. It’s a shame—they put out a lot of lovely books,...
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Playing Ginsberg: Franco/Turturro
The Sundance Film Festival opens this weekend with the premiere of the Allen Ginsberg biopic “Howl,” starring James Franco (angelheaded hipster du jour). Here’s a clip of Franco’s Ginsberg reciting...
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E-books: Are They Worth Buying?
Over the past six months or so, I’ve read a number of e-books on my iPod Touch, trying out Stanza, Kindle for iPhone, and eReader. At this point the various annoyances (text that’s laid out with...
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Margaret Atwood U.K. Book Covers
Finally, a book cover that does justice to the work of Margaret Atwood! Beautiful. Too bad for us Americans that it’s the U.K. edition (here’s the U.S. hardcover: http://www.yearoftheflood.com/us/)....
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Crimes of the Art
Norwegian artist Gardar Eide Einarsson’s new show at Team Gallery in New York consists of a series of large black-and-white paintings based on appropriated images. One source image, it turns out, is a...
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Cool New Poetry Book Covers
What is it with poetry book covers? They’re so often boring or ugly. I think a major reason for the ugly ones is simply that small presses can’t afford to hire a proper designer. And there’s an...
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