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Covers: book cover blog

Design

Just bumped into this brilliant little site on book covers. Why hadn't I seen this before?

Ben Pieratt from fwis posts mini-reviews of covers new and old. Ingeniously simple integration with blog software allows for quick searching and commenting by users.

They even do interviews with designers like Jon Gray.

And while sifting through comments I ran into a link to Mark Melnick's site, which features some beautiful cover design work.

So go and get inspired!

Craig Mod >> October 04, 2006

Comments

Craig:

The artist who does those amazing "pop out" illustrations is Thomas Allen. We exchanged some emails after I commented on his wonderful work in the latest issue of Zoetrope (which was designed by Chip Kidd and features Allen's work throughout).

He's working on a book deal right now and I really hope he gets it - the creativity behind his art is just amazing.

(And thanks for the link to the book cover site - very cool!)

Colleen at October 4, 2006 11:30 AM

Awesome find craig, thanks

Ross at October 4, 2006 04:35 PM

__Colleen:
Thanks for comments. Thomas' work really is fantastic. I've been digging through the Chip Kidd monograph, Book One, and Thomas' photos stand out as some of the most striking covers Chip has been involved in.

You say he's working on a book deal?! Well, if it isn't going through I know we'd love to publish his work. ;-)

Craig at October 5, 2006 08:56 PM