Announcement: Eric Wilder new editor of Spine Magazine
Over the past year, Spine has grown from a small online publication that only my friends read, to a printed magazine with many contributors and a great community of book cover designers around it.
Gender and Children’s Publishing: An Interview With Nosy Crow
If you haven’t heard of Nosy Crow yet, then you’ve got some atoning to do. The company started in January 2011 as an independent publisher of parent-friendly children’s books and apps, and boy, have they hit the road running since.
Anne Jordan is a designer and RISD graduate based in Rochester, New York. She was listed in Print Magazine’s 2015 New Visual Artists: 15 Under 30. Not only that, along with husband Mitch Goldstein, she designed the cover for the issue.
A book cover design often reflects the zeitgeist of design fashion; they need to look modern and eye-catching so lots of publishers work very hard to ensure that new editions really look new.
I want you to imagine that you’re walking into a bookstore. Think about what you do first: do you consume only Stephen King novels and so head straight there, blinkered to the hundreds of other books around you?
Since its release into the world in 1851, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, has become a well-loved and renown classic. Here we take a look at some beautiful covers for this iconic tale.
