Michael Olivo. He had to design a book cover, endpapers, titlepage, and bookplate for The Wizard of Oz for a course in college.

These are incredibly well-designed book covers by Jim Tierney.

(Pretty sure Robert shared this with me months ago.)

Rick Jacques is making beautiful book covers.

Rick Jacques:

Finally finished book cover for twenty-thousand leagues under the sea. All handmade Copper spine was etched with acid to reveal the letters, lettering on front was wood burned, inside is a stripped paper back version of the book wrapped in leather paper then glued on to the spine, and the back has a heat transfer of the summary of the book.

via Incandenza.

John Thomas sent a letter to Meathaus.

Penguin Books UK has a flickr.

Roberto de Vicq believes that graphic design will save you.

icinori (Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller)—their experimental books are beautiful. I haven’t been this in love with a pop-up book since I was a kid.

Art directed by Nicole Caputo, for Basic Books.