embroidery.

how amazing are these embroidered book covers created by jillian tamaki? they are beyond beautiful...i think my favorite is emma, but maybe that is because that is one of my favorite books hahaha. i might have to buy one of these when they come out in october!

wizard of oz.

i saw these illustrations over on jessica hische's blog...they are actually work from some of her students at the university of the arts in philadelphia. the assignment was to create cover illustrations and endpapers/bookplates for the wizard of oz. these are my favorites of the bunch:

cupcakes.

when i went to b&n while i was home for break, a book i actually looked through was hello cupcake! i love cupcakes and there are just so many things you can do to them to make them fun! so i have a bunch of photos to share with you - i was able to find some of my favorites from the book online, but some of them are my photos from my cell phone - so sorry about the bad quality! they have another book that came out this past fall with more cupcakes - so when i get a chance to go to b&n again i will have to take some more photos! these make me want a cupcake! oh i think that the van gogh cupcakes are AMAZING!

book covers.

a little while ago i said that i would look more into some book cover designs - mainly because i had never really thought about that in the design world. i did some looking and i found some really good book covers (well at least ones that i thought were good).

there are so many out there - its crazy! i found a bunch done by old school designers, like paul rand - and i must say that a lot of the older book covers are getting credited as the best book designs ever. but i also found a bunch of modern book designs as well - there are just so many! i think it would be fun to design book covers, but i think it would be harder than it looks. with book cover design you have to have something to catch a person's attention or they might not even look at it, especially if they know nothing about the book. but at the same time you have to make sure that it properly relates or represents the book that you are trying to sell.

i found a website that listed some of the top book cover designs of 2007, and i am pretty sure that the majority of these are from that - but these are just some that i found fun/interesting. oh and i am sure i will be adding more book covers to my blog as i find them...they can be really neat!

one perfect day; designed by evan gaffney:

a general theory of love; designed by john gall:

small crimes in an age of abundance; designed by david drummond:

one red paperclip; designed by kyle kolker:

special orders; designed by jason booher

here is the website where i found the list - there are some other good ones on here too (and also some that i don't like), but take a look! there is also a large variety of book covers at the aiga design archives, located here.

on the road.

i found this the other day when i found the alphabet images from my previous entry. i have never really thought about book cover design, mainly because there are a lot of bad book covers out there and so i usually don't pay attention to them. but i thought that this one was great. it is designed by jez burrows. i like the combination of the type and image and the images used make perfect sense with the subject of the book. its a pretty simple idea, but executed very well.

i will have to look for more good book covers - this one has sparked my interest.

here is the link to the webpage where i found this. the website shows the work of 4 different designers and there is some pretty neat stuff on there. there is also more work by this designer and i like some of it and i don't like some of it - but if you want to see for yourself this is the link to the overall website.