Typography is one of the most useful and important tools in the graphic design toolbox. It is even more interesting when it is applied to the very source of words, ie. Books. In this article we have a collection of typography based book cover designs. With this collection we hope to inspire and demonstrate how important and creative typography can be. To make it easier and more interesting for your viewing pleasure they have been categorized by color. Enjoy!
Always & Forever and Five Other Lies by Veronika Simonovic
The Future of an Illusion – Sigmund Frued
The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara – Edited by Donald Allen
Eating Animals – Jonathan Safran Foer
The Complete Typographer – Will Hill
Love of Beauty is the Taste the Creation of Beauty is Art – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Typography – GRA 1206 – Projects 1 – 6
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
Graphic Design the Forgotten Web Standard
I’m with the Brand – Rob Walker
The Spy Who Loved Me – Ian Fleming
Against Happiness – Eric G Wilson
Thinking With Type – Ellen Lupton
Idea Index, Graphic Effects and Typographic Treatments – Jim Krause
What Do You Care What People Think? – Richard Feynman
The Unabridged Pocket Book of Lightening – Jonathan Safran Foer
A Long Time Ago Essentially True – Brigid Pasulka
The Only Alien on the Planet – Kristen D. Randle
Up A Tree at Night with a Hedgehog – P.Robert Smith
Maigret – George Simenon
Number 9 Dream – David Mitchell
No Country For Old Men, Somehwere Out There Is a True and Living Prophet of Destruction – Cormac McCarthy
The Dream Of Perpetual Motion, A novel – Dexter Palmer
Me, The Me I Want to Be – John Ortberg
The Coffee Book, Recipes, Thoughts, Ideas
A Controversy of Poets – Paris Leary and Robert Kelly
The Gone Away World – Nick Harkaway’
GUT Symmetrie – Jeanette Winterson
A Catalog of Type Hand Job – Michael Perry
Visual Language For Designers – Connie Malamed
Emily Gale, Girl Aloud (The Teensy Talent of a Reluctant Rock Chick) I loved It – Joanna Nadin
Design with Type – Carl Doir
Happy Fish, A Collection of Art – Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
The Brand Gap – Marty Neumeier
Summing up
As we can see, typography is an amazing graphical tool that can be used in remarkable ways. These book cover designs use colour as a tool to enhance the message of the book. The cover is in some ways more important than the blurb as it is the first thing a reader will see. In other words, graphic design is what the audience sees first. They say that a picture is worth a 1000 words. Imagine how many more words well executed typography can say?
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