Keenan. 23 Creative Book Cover Designs and Their Story. Even in a deep and text-based world like literature, you still have to think about art: book cover designs. Cover designs are probably the hardest thing for designers to design because it should show the heart and the soul of the book in one single image. At the same time, it should be visually striking and appealing. Readers are still visual people after all. And a creative book cover design needs to be acknowledged and celebrated. Book Covers that will make you think Last Last Chance by Fiona Maazel Last Last Chance by Fiona Maazel Fiona Mazeel’s cover was designed by Henry Yee, using the Baskerville typeface. The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz The cover is designed by High Design NYC, featuring countless displays in a supermarket with a nutritional panel in the center, but instead of bearing nutritional information, it displays the book’s title, subtitle, author and review in Helvetica typeface.
Impossible Motherhood by Irene Vilar. Scent of a kitten: the 20 irrefutable theories of book cover design. 1. Face theory Research suggests that human beings spend 48.6% of their lives decoding facial communication, so a big draw for a potential book buyer will be the familiarity of a face. The cover of Nick Hornby's Otherwise Pandemonium, for example, uses a cassette tape to create the image of a face. 2.
Association theory Human beings make a connection with a given stimulus that leads to how they respond to something they see. The image on the cover of Luca Turin's The Secret of Scent uses the familiar image of the Chanel No 5 perfume label to help the reader respond to the idea that the book is about scent. 3. This theory presents a challenge to the human mind that some will accept and some won't. 4. This theory uses original or customised typefaces to create images and ideas. 5.
The human mind reads words as a whole not individual letters. 6. The image on a cover using Overdetermination theory suggests the beginning or snapshot of a narrative rather than an overall end result. 7. 8. 9. 10. Cyreal » Multiscript Typography. CPI, number one book printer in the UK. The Book Cover Archive.