Beautiful Book Covers 2012

Enjoy a selection from the 2012 Design Observer and the American Institute of Graphic Arts list of the year’s best book cover designs with a link to the complete top 50.


11 of the Most Beautiful Book Covers of Last Year
gizmodo.com
Ebooks are convenient and all, but there’s nothing quite like an awesome, physical book cover to really get you stoked to dive into a old-school tome. The words inside are important, but there’s something to be said for a really nice piece of shelf-candy too.

Enjoy a selection from the 2012 Design Observer and the American Institute of Graphic Arts list of the year’s best book cover designs with a link to the complete top 50.


11 of the Most Beautiful Book Covers of Last Year
gizmodo.com
Ebooks are convenient and all, but there’s nothing quite like an awesome, physical book cover to really get you stoked to dive into a old-school tome. The words inside are important, but there’s something to be said for a really nice piece of shelf-candy too.

Author Maureen Johnson recently issued a challenge to her Twitter Followers

Author Maureen Johnson recently issued a challenge to her Twitter Followers: she asked people to take a well-known book, then imagine the author of that book was of the opposite gender, or was genderqueer, and imagine what that cover might look like. She received hundreds of replies.


What Happens If You Flip The Gender Of Book Covers?
www.huffingtonpost.com
Yesterday, author Maureen Johnson had a great idea. She tweeted “I do wish I had a dime for every email I get [from guys] that says, “Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can read it.

Author Maureen Johnson recently issued a challenge to her Twitter Followers: she asked people to take a well-known book, then imagine the author of that book was of the opposite gender, or was genderqueer, and imagine what that cover might look like. She received hundreds of replies.


What Happens If You Flip The Gender Of Book Covers?
www.huffingtonpost.com
Yesterday, author Maureen Johnson had a great idea. She tweeted “I do wish I had a dime for every email I get [from guys] that says, “Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can read it.