If anyone has any supplemental information on this exhibition, or knows in what year the AIGA decided to do away with a separate paperbacks exhibition….please leave a note.
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Entries tagged “book cover design”
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How Do You Design a Book Cover?
“First you start with a blank page, stare and think really hard, drink lots of coffee, take lots of breaks, fix the copier jam, update your Facebook page, get over the fears that this project is the one that will finally expose you as the hack that you are, and then just trust to do what you feel is right from what you’ve read, present your ideas to find out how they live outside of your head, listen to feedback, try to leave work at a decent hour, have a life, floss, get enough sleep, have a good breakfast and come back the next day to redo it all over again. It’s that simple and fun. And if it isn’t, then get another blank page and start all over again.”
—Henry Sene Yee, a good friend, teacher and the talented Creative Director at Picador
(above cover design is one of Henry’s unused comps for The Resurrectionist)
Book Cover Archive has recently launched with more than 800 covers to browse through
The Learners by Chip Kidd »
On October 26, 2005, I saw a talk moderated by Chip Kidd, with Charles Burns and Chris Ware (as part of the Thalia Book Club at Symphony Space). I’m very thrilled to now see a collaboration of all three of them within the book design of Chip Kidd’s follow-up to The Cheese Monkeys Drawings by Charles Burns Lettering by Chris Ware Design by Bulbous Medulla (I’m assuming this is an alias for Chip Kidd…anyone know for sure?)
Love Poems by Pablo Neruda, 2008 edition »
Saw this book today at the check out counter of St. Mark’s bookshop…and instantly bought it. Love Poems by Pablo Neruda, published by New Directions Cover design by Rodrigo Corral Illustrated lettering by Marian Bantjes
Paperbacks U.S.A. »
I’ve always had a special attachment to paperback books and their design. (Maybe this is because I read paperbacks, while hardcovers often sit on my shelf to accumulate dust and value?) So I was very excited when I got my hands on an old AIGA catalogue for their Paperbacks U.S.A. exhibition. The book includes the book cover designs and credits for 154 winning entries. But as I wanted to take care of the condition, I never sat down to read the text in its entirety. Today I had a change of heart…
