5 - 11 Feb.
After all the reading I did, looking at different kinds of designs and what book covers had looked like through the ages, what they were made of, I decided to look at modern book cover designs.
Na Kim
A graphic designer based out of Korea and Berlin, she started out as an illustrator. According to an interview with the creative review, she bartender for over 6 years, before she finally got into book cover design. Over the past few years, her covers have been picked as some of the best covers annually. She also does illustrations for newspapers and other graphic designs.
Her work is very interesting, and I find it visually fascinating.
Coralie Bickford-Smith
She had the most stunning clothbound covers I have seen. In her own words, "work I did with Penguin Classics on the clothbound series attracted worldwide attention and harks back to the world of Victorian bindings and a golden age of book binding."
Jenna Stempel-Lobell
Jenna Stempel-Lobell is an Associate Art Director at HarperCollins Children's Books in NYC.
The way she works her covers with the magic of urban realism is truly something.
Jake Nicolella
He is an Art Director and Designer, among many other things. His designs have a striking aspect of storytelling, and they manage to capture an emotional response that the book wants to bring about in them.
Helen Crawford-White
Sometimes you fall in love with a design, sometimes you fall in love with a designer. In this list of absolutely amazing designers, Helen Crawford-White's have stolen my heart. I spent over 3 days, just looking at everything she had ever created in detail. I don't quite know what it is, but all her designs are so compelling to me. Every single one has such carefully constructed detail to them, I simply love her work.
Isabel Urbina Peña
Her works are a stunning display of lettering and typography.
Rodrigo Corral
New York-based Corral has designed a staggering number of the most iconic covers to grace bookshelves over the past 10 years: Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot (2011), Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), and Jay-Z’s Decoded (2010), to name just a few. Often, they fuse bold typography with an image that operates like a logo or spirit animal for the volume it emblazons. You might recognize his iconic The Fault In Our Stars cover.
Alison Forner
Book cover designer and art director at Simon & Schuster.
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Janet Hansen
Janet Hansen is an art director at Alfred A. Knopf (a division of book publisher Penguin Random House) and a multidisciplinary graphic designer
Holly Ovenden
She is a Designer and Illustrator specialising in book covers.
Kate Forrester
She is an illustrator based in Brighton, UK. For the past 15 years, she has specialised in creating hand lettering and illustration for book covers, packaging, advertising and many other applications, telling stories through the combination of intricate decorative detail and her distinctive typographic designs.
John Gall
John Gall, is an American graphic designer known primarily for the design of book covers.
Sarah Kaufman
Sarah Kaufman is a special name on this list. Her work on the Red Queen series is iconic for anyone reading YA books in 2015. Her work took away the focus from the usual book covers featuring beautiful girls in big gowns and showcased increasingly darker, sharp crowns that bleed.
Will Staehle
He was Art Director for HarperCollins Publishers in NYC, VP of Design at JibJab in Venice, and has been labelled by Print Magazine as one of the Top Twenty Under Thirty New Visual Artists, an Art Director’s Club Young Gun, and has also exhibited a solo show of work at the Type Director’s Club. Will’s work has appeared in various design annuals and he’s also contributed to the AIGA’s 50 books / 50 covers exhibit.
Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer, storyteller, and typographer based in New York City.
Kimberly Glyder
Her studio specializes in book design, illustration and lettering.
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