Books offer graphic designers, illustrators and typographers a great way to expand their portfolios. There are endless possibilities that can be explored when designing for book covers, and often are explored, as can be seen in this post. I've had an increased interest in book covers recently after putting together another showcase at The Inspiration Blog on minimalistic book covers, since then I have been browsing for book cover inspiration daily so thought I would share some of my findings here at DesignM.ag. This showcase presents a collection of 64 typographic book covers, all of which are interesting and are genuinely unique. The books themselves are crossed between a number of Coney Island of the Mind Buy on Amazon

Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life. In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets protesting about unemployment, homelessness and the National Front, Benjamins poetry could be heard at demonstrations, outside police…

stefan kanchev (1915-2001) was an applied graphic artist, honored with the bulgarian state title 'national artist' in 1971. in his prolific career he designed more than 1000 trade marks and symbols, 650 stamps as well as a vast array of posters, ads, magazines, and television graphics.

Photographie du portrait : © Photo courtesy of Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. La majorité des images de cet article sont extraites des archives de l’AIGA. – Pionniers de la conce…

Hi everyone! Emily here with today's Tuesday inspiration piece. Every once in awhile something jumps out at me on Pinterest and screams, "HEY! Look at me!! I would make a good layout!" This particular

New York-based freelancer Kim Salt makes work which

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This year may have been terrible in many ways, but as always, there were at least a few bright spots. Many of these spots were books. Many of these books had fantastic covers. (Some of the covers h…

Top Ten Tuesday: Typographic Book Covers are tricky to find in the children's book world when so much is dependent on the illustration!

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We finish up the 2018 Nerdy Book Club Awards with two collaborative posts celebrating the best young adult fiction. This year, we honor twenty outstanding titles capturing and respecting the challe…

Origen México is a encyclopaedic collection of cultural reference points from Mexico, and an expression of love for its land and identity, edited by Ámbar Editores and Paola Gonzalez Vargas. Written in Spanish it covers things such as, Barro negro pottery; the black clay pottery of Oaxaca, Barrancas del Cobre; the six canyons in the Sierra ...

The saying goes that one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But with so many books stacked together on store and library shelves, the cover is what will...

Supplement to the Typeface Book. (Chicago, IL: Ludlow Typograph Company, n.d.) This booklet was present in a pocket on the inside back cover of registered...

Rudolph de Harak (1924-2002) was a legendary American graphic designer who is well-known for his book cover designs for McGraw-Hill during the 50s and 60s. A modernist at heart, de Harak also desig…

A book cover has a challenging job. Not only must it represent the depth of knowledge between its pages, but it must also stand on its own as a form of storytelling. Though a book is certainly more than its cover, the best covers can draw readers in with images and text alone. They can pique interes

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Ah, those classic children's books. You remember. The timeless bedtime stories you loved to hear as you snuggled so tightly in your mom's or dad's arms?

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For what is now the seventh time in a row, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 31 design…

From the “Where are they now?” files, an undocumented paperback version of the classic newspaper typeface.