Book graphic design

As is now Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year–as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 54 designers to share th…

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Cover Designs | Graphic Design

Rives is a paper company with products that are perfect for projects ranging from lithography, intaglio, screen printing, relief printing, linocut, collotype, and drawing. New Zealand-based Fuman Studio was tasked with the job of designing the promotional piece for the company titled 'Touchy Feely' due to its vast range of textures. Instead of sticking to the mundane, they rethought the norm by creating a piece to be cherished as much as art instead of being viewed and tossed

A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers - Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new pieces, from Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey'. Ranging over myth, horror, love, nature, modern life, a diabolical painting, a cow…

Aesthetics of Sustainability. Material Experiments in Product Design was published by Triest Verlag together with ECAL: This volume summarizes the results of “The Aesthetics of Sustainability”, a research project led by ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne. It brought t

Another month of books, another month of book covers. In July, many of those book covers are being Instagrammed next to a beach towel, or perhaps on a dock, or even a picnic bench. For this and oth…