Caustic Cover Critic. Designers & Books | Book lists and commentary from esteemed designers and architects. The Second Pass. The Book Cover Archive. Freaky Fauna’s Tumblr: Archive. Things to look at. Bookhouse girls. Judging a Book by Its Cover: The Best of 2006. Heather Smith features Judging a Book by Its Cover: The Best of 2006 Feh.
Don't talk to me about 2006. For those who like to choose books based on whether they look good in conjunction with one's new, olive-green, chunky Clark Kent glasses, or how well they look next to a single orchid on the windowsill, or how effectively they might compel that foxy person at the coffee shop who angrily slams out their macchiato every morning to one day engage in coitus with them -- well, it's been a rough year. But it's important to keep one's chin up. The Best Book Covers of 2006 Sweet and Low: A Family Story by Rich Cohen Farrar, Straus, & Giroux ISBN: 0374272298 Cover Art: Mickey Duzyj It may be that one day we'll feel the same way about comic-book-style illustration as we do about, say, memoirs with out-of-focus family photographs on the cover.
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison by T.J. Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala Harper Perennial ISBN: 0060798688 Next Month: The Worst Covers of 2006. Illustratori di copertine. Book Cover Archive blog.