Books offer graphic designers, illustrators and typographers a great way to expand their portfolios. There are endless possibilities that can be explored when designing for book covers, and often are explored, as can be seen in this post.
I’ve had an increased interest in book covers recently after putting together another showcase at The Inspiration Blog on minimalistic book covers, since then I have been browsing for book cover inspiration daily so thought I would share some of my findings here at DesignM.ag. This showcase presents a collection of 64 typographic book covers, all of which are interesting and are genuinely unique. The books themselves are crossed between a number of
Coney Island of the Mind
Eight Weeks of Bruce
Estrella Distante
Exit Ghost
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
We Must Not Slump In Dejection Or Shut Ourselves Away
Jenny & The Jaws of Life
Lose Weight Through Great Sex With Celebrities
Man Alone With Himself
Nice Big American Baby
Nocturno de Chile
Outer Dark
Provisional – Emerging Modes of Architectual Practice USA
Slagschaduw
Stone
Suttree
The American Civil War
The Areas Of My Expertise
The Crossing
The Future Of An Illusion
Last Magazine
The Next Hundred Million – America In 2050
The Road
What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead
The Wannsee Conference Solution
Then We Came To The End
We Are Friction
Why I Am So Wise
All The Pretty Horses
Astonishing Splashes Of Colour
Blood Meridian
Capture The Flag
Century Rain
Child Of God
Cities Of The Plain
Eating Animals
El Fercer Reich
Everything Is Illuminated
The Fortress Of Solitude
I’m OK
Superman!
Los Detectives Saluajes
Love Today
Meditations
No Country For Old Men
Oh The Glory Of It All
Poe’s Children – The New Horror
Rendezvous With Rama
Spade & Archer
Sun And Shadow
Tandafslag
The Angry Island
The Autograph Man
The End
The Last Days Of Publishing
The Lost Art Of Walking
The Orchard Keeper
The Seven Days Of Peter Crumb
The Short Novels Of John Steinbeck
The Unabridged Pocket Book Of Lightning
The War On Words
Typography TDC
What Is All This
As can be seen above, there are a lot of areas to explore with book covers – for young, budding designers, redesigning the cover of your favorite book is a superb way to learn new skills and increase the size and quality of your portfolio.
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