Book Cover Design

[indepwe]

chrisashley.net

 

[Susanna-Cole]

^^Aw, the picture doesn't show up ... maybe you could re-upload it?

Wowww! Those are amazing.
Real artworks.

Yes, very meticulous, regal craftsmanship, and many of them were made one-of-a-kind, worthy of a museum or gallery, if you ask me! Thanks for the karma, by the way, I'm happy you liked them!

 

[testinofan]

loveeeed Coralie Bickford-Smith

 

[Susanna-Cole]

Some more Penguin spines ...

Via _cassia_ @ Flickr

 

[Katie123]

i love old penguins so much

 

[Susanna-Cole]

i love old penguins so much

Oh, have you read this book? The history of Penguin books, has pictures of covers from Penguin's beginning to present time, although mostly it's old covers.

 

[Katie123]

amazing i particularly love the clothbound ones, i read the designer's name somewhere (probably in this thread!) and researched her and she's got the NICEST covers

amazon.com

 

[tiffany]

^ So cute

 

[Susanna-Cole]

Coralie Bickford-Smith is becoming one of the best book-cover designers around. Chip Kidd ought to watch out.

From the gothic horror series:

From the Sherlock Holmes series:

cb-smith.com

More coming next post...

 

[Susanna-Cole]

(Sorry for the large white space in the above two covers, they were like that on her website, and I was too lazy to crop them. )

cb-smith.com

 

[misspistol]

I bought that cloth covered copy of Lady Chatterly's Lover solely for the cover
For Penguin book cover fiends (like me) there is a great postcard set called Postcards From Penguin.
http://popartpistol.blogspot.com/2010/02/postcards-from-penguin.html

 

[tiffany]

Those are all so beautiful, Susanna and misspistol

 

[Vegetarian]

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I got a bit carried away whle looking at cb-smith.com
Sorry for any reposts!

 

[Susanna-Cole]

Also following on tumblr

Aw, thank you so much!

And don't worry about the amount in your last post, I completely understood, Coralie is awfully talented, isn't she? It's easy to get carried away posting her work, you can see I did, as well, a few posts back!

 

[misspistol]

I can't wait for the F. Scott Fitzgerald books to come out, they look beautiful.

 

[Rosa Cr]

Amazing cover desingns! This would probably be my dream job

 

[KaitlynAliano]

we're taught to never judge a book by it's cover but if the cover makes you take the book off the shelf and start reading then it's done its job...

This.

 

[prehuman]

ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com

 

[Fantomette]

Someone posted earlier one of the Kafka covers with photographs by Jacob Sutton. These are from the same collection.

garycardiology blogspot

Thanks to everyone contributing to this thread, it's one of my favorite

 

[TanyaKiller]

Evangeliar Book Cover c.1100



Textile bookbinding The Netherlands, 1615-1620. Contents: Biblia. Leyden, Udrich Cornelijs, voor Jan Everss Cloppenburch en Isack Ianss Canin, 1615; Arthurus Dentus. Voet-pat der eenvoudigher menschen. Utrecht, Abraham van Herwijck, voor Hendrick Laurensz tot Amsterdam, 1614.



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