Archive for the ‘Book Cover’ Category
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Stranger Will, cover by committee
Much is said about the difference between art and product, between creative motivation and monetary motivation. I think that perhaps no medium bridges those two worlds better than the book cover, a visual meant to entice a person to experience the art within. But what is strange about any art ...
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i am here And You Are Gone book cover
When planning a cover design, one approach is to extract an image from the story and build upon it to reflect the narrative’s overall tone. Here, I felt as though I had no other option than to take this approach.
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cover of Perforated Heart | JASON HEUER
Perforated Heart, with it’s recessed perforations, is as close as a cover design can get before it transcends the 2D format. And when that happens, we get legitimate book art objects
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cover of Charactered Pieces: stories | CALEB J ROSS
To celebrate today’s release of my chapbook Charactered Pieces: stories from OW Press, I am going to get a bit ego-y and discuss my own work. Artjerk was set up to do just that, let us jerks discuss our own pieces (as well as the pieces of others, sure), but ...
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cover of The Luzhin Defense | PAUL SAHRE, JOHN GALL
Each cover consists of a photograph of a specimen box, the kind used by collectors like Nabokov to display insects.
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cover of December | BARBARA DE WILDE
the chewing-hair image is striking due to its nearly universal connotations: that of the young tease