Yasuo Segawa, Boshi (A Straw Hat), Japan 1983, cover and back cover
Covered: Tom Addison covers Action Comics 1
NaNoWriMo: the 30th draws near…
Robert: “When I awoke, she was gone and she had taken the truth with her.”
Robert: I meant to say “truck.”
It’s down to the last two days, one hour, and forty minutes of NaNoWriMo. Who is 7,700 words from the end?
That’s right: me.
Just thought I’d take the moment to share that, and a preview of the cover art I’ve been working on:
Edit: Whoops. Forgot to put the beard on the lady.
“The ‘beard’ is clearly a metaphor, Robert.”
Have you guys seen these? They’re all reissued classics with new pretty cloth covers. Check out the whole album on flickr, just lovely!
Oh Hanako look!
Studiosmith was once a boxer promoter. This is from his flickr collection of beautifully designed book covers.
via Unequal-Design.
My favorite of M.S. Corley’s cover designs for the Harry Potter series.
via bookcoverdesign.
Wow. Penguin Classics and (RED)’s typographic cover designs.
(Bailey, I only saw it when you mentioned it.)
These are incredibly well-designed book covers by Jim Tierney.
(Pretty sure Robert shared this with me months ago.)
These covers were designed by Mikey Burton to be “an integrated branding campaign based around the illustrative reinterpretation of classic book covers directed toward junior-high-school students.” Check out Burton’s flickr page for even more great looking concepts.
[via flickr]
[via booklover: awritersruminations: acoolerversionofyourself]
Joy Ang shows off the process behind The Anthology Project’s cover. You can (and should) view every step here.
The 20 Irrefutable Theories Of Book Cover Design, Part I
(Above - something I arranged super-quick at my desk. The lettering could be better but hey, this was a super-quick-fast!)
May 5, 2010, AIGA’s Small Talk No. 7: Jon Gray (gray318) & Jamie Keenan: XX: The Twenty Irrefutable Theories of Book Cover Design (Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kill Fee). The tag team presentation rolled out cover design slides and theories at a fast and furious pace. The ‘20 Irrefutable Theories’ may sound absolute and definitive but much of it was knowing/tongue-in-cheek; there was frequent overlap amongst the theories and examples; and really, it was just a fun framework for talking about their work and showing a lot of slides.
I’m a bad note-taker to begin with (working on it), but here’s the 20 Irrefutable Theories according to Gray and Keenan. After the initial listing I’ll break them down with brief descriptions and examples (the ones I managed to jot down, anyway).
THE 20 IRREFUTABLE THEORIES OF BOOK COVER DESIGN
i. Face Theory
ii. Association Theory
iii. Type As Image Theory
iv. Overdetermination Theory
v. Ringfence Theory
vi. Zoom Theory
vii. Encapsulation Theory
viii. Utilitarian Theory
ix. Molecular Theory
x. Unheimlich Theory
xi. Absent Presence Theory
xii. Toy Theory
xiii. Method Theory
xiv. Jiu Jitsu Theory
xv. Combination Theory
xvi. Navigation Theory
xvii. Turd Theory
xviii. Iceberg Theroy
xviv. Maximalism Theory
xx. And Finally … Theory
