30 Covers 30 Days is a current project of The Office of Letters and Light, in which 30 design ers are paired with 30 participant authors and tasked with the challenge of designing a book cover in 24 hours (read more about how it works here). Here are a few examples of the designs that have already posted, but you can check out the com plete list of design ers you’ll be seeing right here
.So it looks like designing one book cover every day makes your covers look awesome.
Let’s look at some fucking books!
There’s a little bit of a 90’s nickelodeon thing happening here. It’s very novelization-of-Are-You-Afraid-of-the-Dark.
Which isn’t a bad thing (AT ALL! 90’s Nick 4LIFE!)
from FaceOut Books
New from Grand Central. From the credits, it seems Catherine built a model and photographed it to create this fascinating cover. This is the first in a post-apocalyptic thriller trilogy. A man appears in a city without remembering anything that came before that and meets The Cardinal, the city’s monstrous absolute ruler.
I want to write something about how cool and creepy this cover is, but I’m having a hard time because right now I am also listening to the Journey mash-up from the last episode of Glee.
Coming soon, from Penguin UK, and continuing with the trend set by the much-coveted and admired clothbound, redesigned penguin classics.
Using a stylized repeating pattern to sum up the feeling of a book seems like a good fit for Fitzgerald, because I read that when he published the Great Gatsby people were like “Fscott, this book has too much 20’s stuff, when people read it in 15 years it’s going to seem DATED and RIDICULOUS”. But who’s laughing now? Everyone still wants to buy a copy of the Great Gatsby and they want to buy it with a classy, art deco, jazz age cover.
Just saw this on Book Covers Anonymous and everything about it says “OH SNAP!”
Even better? “This novel is about a couple who hires a minor deity, who happens to be a racoon, to help their lives run better.”
They also posed A. Lee Martinez’s previous novel, which looks pretty badass
Trying to figure out why I find these minimalist, conceptual book jackets so fascinating and so creepy.
Also trying to figure out why I already have “impossible objects” as a tag.
