![]() The cutoff at the bottom half of painting is at the right placement exposing a sliver of the right eye where the slight tension is enough to bring intrigue to the viewer. I was immediately drawn to this cover when I first saw it in the bookstores. Lino Lago’s “fake abstract” painting and the clean minimal typography give a modern sensibility, a historic nod and the sense of something being uncovered. Grace’s art selection could not feel more perfect. The description and blurbs for this book detail characters who are searching without knowing what they seek, quiet suspense and spare and exacting prose. – Lauren Peters-Collaer Cover design by Grace Han (FSG, January 15) The handwritten subtitle and author are an ingenious contrast to the weighty title-I find it so exciting when type is used in such a creative way that additional imagery isn’t needed. When so many designs have their main visuals in the center, it’s very satisfying to see a layout that leaves the middle completely blank. – Rachel Willey Cover design by Oliver Munday (The New Press, January 8) Also love the modern feel this has with the use of neon inks on natural papers. Such a clever image, both delicate and sinister. * Cover design by Alex Merto (FSG, January 8) The designer with the most covers on the list: The press with the most covers on the list:įSG (including MCD x FSG originals) : 18 covers Jac Jemc, False Binggo, design by June Park : 4 votes ![]() Regina Porter, The Travelers, design by Michael Morris : 4 votesĭunya Mikhail, In Her Feminine Sign, design by Janet Hansen : 4 votes Tegan & Sara, High School, design by Na Kim : 5 votes ![]() Myla Goldberg, Feast Your Eyes, design by Lauren Peters-Collaer : 6 votes Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police, design by Tyler Comrie : 9 votes Below that, you can feast your eyes on all the covers they picked, in order of publication date. Here are the final stats, if you’re into that kind of thing. But of course, some of them had similar ideas about the best of the best. This year, I asked 26 of my favorite designers to share their own favorite book covers of the year, and they came back with a whopping 78 different selections. We also revisited Raymond Carver covers, Beloved covers, Slaughterhouse-Five covers, and Invisible Man covers from around the world-and we basked in the work of Todd Alcott, who reimagines classic songs as vintage book covers.īut it is December, the official month of Best-of Listicles, and therefore I am contractually obligated to ask: which book covers were the best? To answer the question, as I did last year and the year before that, and good lord, the year before that, I cut to the chase and consulted the experts: the book designers themselves. Sauers wrote about designing her grandfather’s book (her grandfather being James Thurber) Nicole Caputo wrote about using red, white, and blue on book covers and Alison Forner laid out the process behind designing the cover for Sarah M. Oliver Munday wrote about designing the cover for Fleur Jaeggy’s newly reissued masterpiece Sweet Days of Discipline Tree Abraham wrote about designing the (very glittery) cover for T Kira Madden’s Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls Sara T. Finally, there is a ten-minute period of intensive yelling, and at 8:15 on the dot they all howl and crash their way out of the apartment to school.” (p.This year, at Lit Hub, we spent a lot of time thinking about book cover design. ![]() Meanwhile the toilet is flushed, on average, fifty times per drop of urine expelled. Every minute, one of the kids cartwheels (while bouncing cannonballs) back into the kitchen for seconds, then returns (bringing with it a family of excitable kangaroos) to the TV. They grab their chunks of baguette and go and sit in front of the TV, which is always showing a cartoon about people who do nothing but scream at each other and explode. The kids drop bags of cannonballs onto the floor, then, apparently dragging several sledgehammers each, stampede into the kitchen. At 7:00 am alarm goes off, boom, Madame gets out of bed, puts on her deep-sea divers’ boots, and stomps across my ceiling to megaphone the kids awake. I now knew every second of the morning routine of the family upstairs. “I was also sick of my neighbors, as most Parisians are.
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