Book Design Inspiration

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Seafaring Women

book design inspiration – a broadsheet newspaper about secret female sailors

Seafaring Women is a broadsheet newspaper on the subject of female sailors, and is part of the project The Hidden Things in Plain Sight: Female Sailors and Stowaways conceived by Anastasia Palamarchuk & Rebecca Sittler, that looks at gender roles and the stigma of being female in a male dominated society.

Seafaring Women features content sourced from 19th/20th century ship logs and news articles…

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Dracula, illustrated

Book Design Inspiration – illustrated Dracula book

“There was one great tome more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned.

On it was but one word, DRACULA.”

Check out this illustrated edition of Bram Stoker’s classic, quintessential Gothic tale, Dracula.

This hardcover book, created by Nafis Adhikari, features an illustration style that subtly blends Victorina-era Gothic-revival with Manga, with Victorian-inspired floral…

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Punased I (The Reds)

Punased I (The Reds)

Book interior page – red text on white page

Punased I (translation: The Reds), is a book by Jaak Valge that looks at communism activist and Estonia’s incorporation into the Soviet Union following World War II.

Designing by Tuumik Stuudio, type within the book is printed in red on white stock, with greyscale imagery printed onto PopSet poppy stock, giving these pages a striking, blood-red hue.

Finally, the book is bound in a gun-metal…

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Collector’s Edition – Artist Cover Bomb Series

Collector’s Edition – Artist Cover Bomb Series

Collector's Edition by Stuart Tolley

Collector’s Edition: Innovative Packaging and Graphics is a visual culture book about specialist music, book, magazine design by Stuart Tolley.

Following the success of Collector’s Edition,  Stuart approached several respected and well-known creative artists and musicians and asked them each to produce a unique, one-off, hand decorated edition of the book.

These fantastic special editions are…

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Illustrated hand-printed books by Valeria Brancaforte

Illustrated hand-printed books by Valeria Brancaforte

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One of the things I love about running this blog is the diverse mix of work I get submitted for consideration (want to be featured? Submit your own).

It ranges from modern designs with clean layouts and perfect typography, to rougher, more the more relaxed, expressive work , that’s a little ‘rougher around the edges’.

These books by Italian print-maker Valeria Brancaforteare a great example of…

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IRKUT Aircraft

Irkut airacraft – Illustrated book design

Check out this promotional book for Russian aircraft manufacturer, Irkut, designed by TWET.

I love the textured illustrations throughout the book. I was expecting the interior to be very rigid and corporate, with lots of striking photography of aircraft, so the illustrations and illustrated type where something of a surprise (albeit a nice one).

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Photography by Gelio…

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A conceptual hardback cover design for Chuck Palahniuk’s cult classic Fight Club. Drawing on the theme of chaos, the book is wrapped in a sandpaper jacket, with the title and author name screen printed onto the front.
When placed on a shelf between...

A conceptual hardback cover design for Chuck Palahniuk’s cult classic Fight Club. Drawing on the theme of chaos, the book is wrapped in a sandpaper jacket, with the title and author name screen printed onto the front.

When placed on a shelf between other books, the sandpaper cover will damage the other covers every time it is removed and replaced, allowing the reader themselves to “destroy something beautiful…” 


http://www.paulmurraydesign.com/project/fight-club-hardback-cover

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25 Hand-picked Free Fonts for Sci-fi Book Covers

25 Hand-picked Free Fonts for Sci-fi Book Covers

Free Fonts for SciFi Book Cover Designs

Ah, picking a typeface, possibly the most frustrating hurdle a designer will face when working on any design.

It’s not just a case of slapping on some text in any old font. You have to find that perfect one that that feels just right.

This is especially true when designing a book cover.

Everythingon the cover will give a potential reader a snap-judgement of the story inside, especially the…

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