Paul Whybrow
Full Member
This article on the best book cover designs of 2015 is in today's Guardian newspaper.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/bo.../12/the-best-book-designs-of-2015-in-pictures
They're professionally done, but I can't say that any of them grab me particularly, though the Covert Operations design is clever.
The article made me think about my favourite book covers. I've already posted one of them in another thread, for Haruki Murakami's 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.'
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Familiar book cover designs are like seeing the face of an old friend. I'm a huge fan of Richard Brautigan, and fond of these two covers:
Coming up with original designs is tricky, of course, and some are really copycat in form. We're all familiar with the image of a receding figure, back to the viewer and often in silhouette. Many thrillers have this design, and I swear it's the same anonymous models in many of them - I doubt that they get repeat fees! I was once in a huge book-store in London, probably a Waterstones, and I saw a host of these covers in the crime section. Feeling mischievous, I rearranged them so that they were all next to one another - it looked like a mob of dark and depressed strangers retreating from the reader.
What are Colonists' favourite book cover designs, and do you have any pet peeves?
http://www.theguardian.com/books/bo.../12/the-best-book-designs-of-2015-in-pictures
They're professionally done, but I can't say that any of them grab me particularly, though the Covert Operations design is clever.
The article made me think about my favourite book covers. I've already posted one of them in another thread, for Haruki Murakami's 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.'
Familiar book cover designs are like seeing the face of an old friend. I'm a huge fan of Richard Brautigan, and fond of these two covers:
Coming up with original designs is tricky, of course, and some are really copycat in form. We're all familiar with the image of a receding figure, back to the viewer and often in silhouette. Many thrillers have this design, and I swear it's the same anonymous models in many of them - I doubt that they get repeat fees! I was once in a huge book-store in London, probably a Waterstones, and I saw a host of these covers in the crime section. Feeling mischievous, I rearranged them so that they were all next to one another - it looked like a mob of dark and depressed strangers retreating from the reader.
What are Colonists' favourite book cover designs, and do you have any pet peeves?
And like Jason I prefer original covers to updated ones 
