Book Cover Design

[ponytrot]

for a 180 in aesthetics - i love these modern covers.

tvbookshop.com

 

[ponytrot]

i saw more stuff i liked (my last post for the night)

- these are book spines...can they sort of count as being part of the cover?

the...covering perhaps? nonetheless, so pretty..

theselby.com

 

[Diorette]

I had an absolute field day browsing old Enid Blyton illustrators, and stumbling on a huge assortment of covers and illustrators. Hope you all enjoy them!

I love them.
You should post them in this wonderful thread:
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f81/childrens-book-illustrations-25554.html

 

[ruslana rules]

I had to laugh when I saw this one... Book- When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops by George Carlin - Source- shuckandjive.org

 

[jjbunny79]

^ (sidetracker) I think Jesus do kosher too, so where does the pork chop comes from?!

 

[Susanna-Cole]

Some inspiring covers from the Book Cover Archive.

 

[*Bianca*]

nytimesbooks.blogspot.com//bookcoverarchive.com

 

[*Bianca*]

bookcoverarchive.com

 

[Feline]

I love the covers from Michelle Paver's 'Chronicles of Ancient Darkness' series. I think they are so evocative of the age they are set in.

Pics from amazon.co.uk

 

[misspistol]

This thread is wonderful, I especially love the Enid Blyton covers! They certainly bring back memories.
Honestly, I bought this book based on the cover. It's embossed and is just lovely.

My photo

 

[juliahearts]

ponytrot - i think those types of books are so gorgeous

 

[Susanna-Cole]

Cover design by Owen Scott; photograph by Wynn Bullock.

 

[xabscission]

oh this thread is amzing. i love these all, they are just so intresting
this is the trilogy of my FAVE book series ever

book one:


book two:


two different covers for book three (just the hair, i personally enjoy the black hair better





I know, not as thought provoking as other book covers in here but i enjoy the way the cover looks, also really good books in general

 

[xabscission]

some inspiring covers from the Book Cover Archive.

OMG, those were all great and i really like the columbine one,when i got the book the first thing i noticed was the cover was just so amazingly scary and deserted looking. lol anyways,I finished reading it about a week ago. A M A Z I N G book, tho dave cullen does seem to exagerate some facts (hmmmph!!) :L

 

[tiffany]

Cover design by Owen Scott; photograph by Wynn Bullock.

Fantastic It's one of the best I've ever seen

 

[anakaye]

this isn't Book Cover so much as entire book design, but I got this copy of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen at my university's book fair for 50c. It's from 1914 and is so beautifully designed. it's also in perfect condition

 

[Susanna-Cole]

Cover designs by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

(via coco+kelley @ blogspot)

 

[Susanna-Cole]

Sorry to double post, but here's some more. I scanned these from The Complete Book of Bookbinding by Josep Cambras

For my tentative book, I'm very inspired by these ... I definitely want to master bookbinding, mass factory produced and cheap doesn't appeal as much to me. These are so ornate and exquisite.

(Left) Imperial style, 18th century (Right) Cathedral style with gold tooling, leather onlays, and gauffering, 19th century

(Above) Paul Bonet, The Death of Venice, 1937

(Above) Curtain style binding, 18th century

(Left) A la fanfarre binding, early 17th century (Right) Renaissance binding, 16th century

(Left) Jean Grolier, 16th century (Right) Venetian binding, 1562

(Left) Aldine decoration, 16th century (Right) Renaissance binding, 16th century

(Above) Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis (1652), illustrating fan decoration

(Above) Plateresque style with gold tooling

Hold on, I have to post the rest in another post, exceeding limit ...

 

[Susanna-Cole]

The rest, scanned from the same book, as above stated ...

(Above) Example of Persian folder binding, 14th century

(Above) Islamic binding, 15th century

(Above) Parchment binding in the form of a folder, 16th century

(Left) Mudejar style with metal closures and decorations (Right) Plateresque style with metal corner pieces and decorations

 

[Diorette]

Sorry to double post, but here's some more. I scanned these from The Complete Book of Bookbinding by Josep Cambras

For my tentative book, I'm very inspired by these ... I definitely want to master bookbinding, mass factory produced and cheap doesn't appeal as much to me. These are so ornate and exquisite.

Wowww! Those are amazing.
Real artworks.