I just read an essay in Ann Patchett’s new essay collection called “Cover Stories” about the covers of all of her books, including foreign editions, which ones she liked, which ones she disliked and how she was able to eventually take a more active role in steering the direction of them. This was a fun post to come upon after reading that. There is definitely a distinct current design trend in book covers. I would love to see collections from past years and decades.
The Isermann covers are killer!
elm
what a week
I know...as an East Coast person I don't "see" CA art as much as I was led to his exhibits from this.
As a person depending on the internet as a periscope, I only see random art noise - not that there's anything wrong with random art noise!
elm
collective overload of the individual
Yet another delightful new thing from the master
I just read an essay in Ann Patchett’s new essay collection called “Cover Stories” about the covers of all of her books, including foreign editions, which ones she liked, which ones she disliked and how she was able to eventually take a more active role in steering the direction of them. This was a fun post to come upon after reading that. There is definitely a distinct current design trend in book covers. I would love to see collections from past years and decades.
Thanks for the recommendation. There is a funny man on twitter from Australia called Caustic Cover Critic who makes fun of book covers.
https://twitter.com/Unwise_Trousers
Darn it! Twitter doesn’t let you browse without having an account anymore so it keeps kicking me out before I can take a good look at his feed.
O that's too bad. He is so funny. But I looked and he has a blog:
http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/
Use nitter.net. Let's you effectively browse twitter anonymously. Does tend to overload, donations helpful.
(Just change any twitter url from twitter.com to nitter.net, while keeping the rest of the url intact, and you're solid.)
elm
you can use greatfon.com as an instagram gallery, no fuss, no muss