TIOLI Book Design Art

Designer: Noma Bar

Challenge #13: Read a book that acknowledges the book designer or cover artist
By acknowledging, I mean that the book designer or the cover art illustrator is specifically noted either on the copyright page or elsewhere, but not in a general acknowledgements section where the author is thanking everyone she/he ever met. I'll also allow nonfiction focusing on book design or cover art.
NB: I won't be accepting photographers

Post the cover art of the specific edition of the book you are reading on this thread

Back to the TIOLI thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/188331

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Wake by Elizabeth Knox
Cover Art by Dylan Horrocks who is the author of several graphic novels
The acknowledgement was on the inside back flap, took some searching to find and I had started the challenge because of this book as I aready knew who the illustrator was.

Garlic, Mint & Sweet Basil by Jean-Claude Izzo
Book design by Emanuele Ragnisco
www.mekkanografici.com

This is a Europa Editions book and I find their books generally have excellent design values, not particularly in love with the cover art on this one though.

I've added Gone Girl to this challenge. The Cover Design by Darren Haggar is acknowledged on the copyright page.



ETA: I love those Murakami covers that your opened with, Kerry. Much more effective use of black/white/red than Gone Girl!

>4 DeltaQueen50: I love them too, I think he did them for Vintage.
Do google Noma Bar and look at his work, he does incredibly effective design art with the simplest of ideas.

I added Moonbane, which has a cover by Alan M. Clark, who is one of my favorite cover artists for horror novels.

>5 avatiakh: Wow. His work really is something. Many of them had more than one image depending on how you looked at it. Deceptively simple, I would say, but very engaging.

I'm reading Mortal Engines by Phillip Reeve, selected for this month's book club read. The edition I have is published by Scholastic, and the cover copyright is David Frankland. Would I have picked it up based on this cover? No, but then neither am I the book's target demographic.

>8 Helenliz: I have a print of the cover art for the 4th book, A darkling plain, signed by both Reeve & Frankland. I got it in a charity auction a few years ago and love it.

Des Mauren letzter Seufzer : Roman by Salman Rushdie
cover art by Dennis Leigh (it seems that most editions have that cover)

I just finished reading Zoo City by Lauren Beukes. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for this strange, dark, and compelling novel.

The cover illustrations, acknowledged on the back cover, are by Joey HiFi (AKA Dale Halvorsen). This cover won the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Artwork in 2011 and the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (France) for Best Cover Design in 2012.



I had to make the image size pretty big to do it justice. It is as intricate and eerie as the book.

And then there's this totally creepy illustration on the back cover.

Blood of the Demon by Diana Rowland
(Cover design: Dreu Pennington-McNeil, Cover illustration: Juliana Kolesova)

The Great War : Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War. The stories contained herein are written by eleven contributors. The illustrations on the cover and throughout the book are by Jim Kay. He is mentioned both on the front and back covers.

I Had a Favorite Dress by Boni Ashburn. Front cover says, "Pictures by Julia Denos". Inside says, "The illustrations in this book were made using watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, needle and thread, digital collage, and a bit of Photoshop here and there." Inside the back flap, it reads, "Jacket illustraions copyright 2011 Julia Denos."

This is a sweet little children's book about a girl's favorite dress, which she outgrows, and the many changes the dress goes through in becoming other pieces of her apparel as she gets bigger.