Category Archives: Book Cover Design

Judging a Book by its cover: 1984

By admin | Published: October 30, 2009
The adage of not judging a book by its cover may hold true for older books, especially those designed and printed before the art of book design became fine, but contemporary books ask to be judged. Present book design illustrates aspects of a book (or attempt to at least) appealing to readers’ interests in much the [...]
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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

By admin | Published: October 8, 2009
Title: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales Author: Lyudmila Petrushevskaya Published by: Penguin Non-Classics Cover Design: Christopher Brand As Russian novelists, playwrights and writers go, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is as good as it gets for modern fiction. Using her postmodern vantage point, Petruchevskaya references the works of her predecessors’, such as [...]
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The Lie That Tells the Truth

By admin | Published: October 4, 2009
Title: The Lie that Tells a Truth Author: John Dufresne Published by: W.W. Norton & Co. Designed by: John Fulbrook III Author John Dufresne instructs us how to write in his book The Lie that Tells a Truth: A guide to writing fiction. A manual on book-writing, the non-fiction is divided into “The Process” which focuses on habits and [...]
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