Designing the book cover for our family history was relatively easy affair. There were really only two shots in the entire album of submissions that family members made that were:
i) Appropriate
ii) Of adequate digital sizing, so as not to be warped or skewed when enlarged.
My talented friend put them together for me, and as I watched her fiddle with margins and bleeds and cropping and all other sorts of business I was again reminded why I didn’t become a designer. I do not have the patience.
Then the other day I was reading this very interesting piece in Sarsparilla (I love that word) about books from movie tie-ins, a subject I’d never considered before, and now I do.
So my question is: what book covers stand out for you? Are they from movie tie-ins, or for some other reason.
I must admit, for me, what comes to mind is American Psycho, because the day I bought it, some nine years ago, I pulled it off the shelf in Sydney and was intrigued by it’s 18+ bound packaging and then again by it’s artistry (more about it’s designer here).
But there’s more, upon reflection. I remember thinking the ugly yellow cover of Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye was just dumb (ignorant teenager that I was).
So okay, if I was just to say the words: book cover. What immediately comes to mind for you? Why? Do you like it, or not?
