![]() – Linda Huang Cover design by Grace Han (Riverhead, February 19) The drooping, face-down profile conveys a feeling of malaise in such a refreshing way. I’ve seen stretched type, but I don’t think I’ve seen a cover with stretched imagery executed to such visceral effect. – Mark Abrams Cover design by Na Kim (FSG, February 12) – Laywan Kwan Cover design by Charlotte Strick & Claire Williams (Catapult, February 5) The pattern on pattern design, and white type on off-white background is totally mesmerizing. My eyes feel like they’re playing tricks on me with this cover. – Coralie Bickford-Smith Cover design by Rodrigo Corral (One World, January 29) The wonderful culmination of tiny details and care. – Donna Cheng Cover design by Michael Morris (Crown, January 29)Ī lovely pastiche of the classic Hogarth Press Editions for Virginia Woolf designed by Vanessa Bell. The light pink is a lovely contrast to the oil painting and brings the image into focus. 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. This year, at Lit Hub, we spent a lot of time thinking about book cover design.
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