04-14-2008, 06:11 AM | #1 |
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Judge a cover
Sure, they tell us not to judge a book by it's cover, but that's no reason not to judge the cover.
The following link to a post on the Smashing Magazine blog shows "some creative, expressive and appealing book covers". I think quite a few of you will like it and perhaps might have some links (Amazon?) to covers of books you've bought that you've really liked: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008...nd-paperbacks/ Personally, I like the Nick Strathopoulos covers for the Terry Dowling Rynosseros books. Some of the works in the following link are Nick's (see the info for each image): http://www.terrydowling.com/?id=covers Cheers, Marc |
04-14-2008, 07:07 PM | #2 |
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excellent link ! a well-designed bookcover can be a work of art just as well as the text inside it. thanks for reminding us that sometimes form counts as much as function. (speaking as a graphic designer i'm biased of course, but still).
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04-14-2008, 08:27 PM | #3 |
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Very cool to see, particularly for some older editions. I absolutely love the one for "Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance". I've frequently suffered from book cover envy. I was never the guy in line buying books with cool covers. The only one I ever bought that I gave much thought to is this one from 1970. It went perfectly with the novel but no attribution was given for the cover art.
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04-14-2008, 08:44 PM | #4 |
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my father frequently buys (used...) books he has never heard of, by authors he has never heard of, just because he likes the cover art.
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04-14-2008, 10:16 PM | #6 |
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Back in the 60s and 70s a lot of people I knew bought music albums because they liked the cover -- even from groups that they had never heard about. Not that I ever did such a thing you understand.
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Back on topic: A good cover always grabs my attention, may not but the book but I'll at least look at it. |
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Interesting that none of these are "illustration" covers, i.e. where something is portrayed which appears within the text. Then again, most seem to be non-fiction.
I should round up my collection of early SF covers. |
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I like old style,hardcover covers.Like that eerie one for Machen's "Novel of the white powder".
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here it is!
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Its the cover for "The novel of the white powder and other stories".You'd have to read the story itself to get it.
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ive seen covers relating the oposite (liek Wordsworth clasics cover of Frankenstein)
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