Here’s a quick glance to a few notable covers hitting the bookstores in April 2015.
The first is:
Voices in the Night by Steven Millhauser; design by Janet Hansen (Knopf / April 2015)
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— Purity
I think that I rather like the cover for Jonathan Franzen’s upcoming novel ‘Purity’.
— Crystal Palace
(1852).
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— Triptyk | Lars Gorling
Vintage book cover: 1964, cover by Kerstin & Per Engström
— The Genera of British Moths
Decorative cover of ‘The Genera of British Moths’ by H. Noel Humphreys. Published 1860 by Paul Jerrard & Sons. You can turn the pages here.
— Kafka Covers
In latest Creative Characters newsletter from MyFonts, designer Julia Sysmäläinen talks about designing FF Mister K, the typeface based on Franz Kafka’s handwriting used by Peter Mendelsund for his redesign of Schocken’s Kafka covers:
Originality, authenticity, and honesty are crucial qualities to me. I think Mr. K has all of that, just like Franz Kafka’s manuscripts do. While I was working on it, I realized that while Mister K is a font, it is also the visualization of a personality. The font is not pretty, or beautiful in the classic sense — and it doesn’t want to be.
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— Robert McGinnis
Yet another sublime pulp-fiction illustration by Robert McGinnis.
With a couple more too after the jump:
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— Hiroshima mon amour
Cover of Hiroshima mon amour by Marguerite Duras. Illustrated by Frédéric Blaimont.
Via: Flickr & This Isn’t Happiness
— Calvino
New Italo Calvino covers by Peter Mendelsund and Oliver Munday.
It’s kinda interesting – though I don’t really know why – to see all four covers superimposed atop each other.
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— You
‘You’ by Caroline Kepnes; design by Natalie Sousa (Atria / September 2014)
— Joyland
Collecting books is worryingly addictive – to be honest, collecting generally (a malady I really do suffer from) is worryingly addictive.
I am taking some delight in having managed to track down one of the Limited Edition slipcased versions of Stephen King’s short and rather sweet crime novel for Hard Case Crime, Joyland.
I have been lucky enough to end up with no. 560 of an edition of just 724 copies.
The cover for just this Limited Edition is by the legendary pulp-fiction book cover artist Robert McGinnis.
