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Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent unit. In the words of renowned typographer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974), book design, "though largely forgotten today, [relies upon] methods and rules upon which it is impossible to improve ...
Cover art is a type of artwork presented as an illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product, such as a book (often on a dust jacket), magazine, newspaper , comic book, video game , music album , CD, videotape, DVD, or podcast. Cover art can include various things such as logos, symbols, images, colors, or anything that ...
Another highly influential early book cover designer was Aubrey Beardsley, thanks to his striking covers for the first four volumes of The Yellow Book (1894–1895). In the post-war era, book covers have become vitally important as the book industry has become commercially competitive.
Cliff Nielsen is an American book illustrator and comic book artist. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits him with cover art for about 500 book and magazine covers published since 1994 [ 1 ] Nielsen is best known [ citation needed ] for his work on projects such as Star Wars , The X-Files , Chronicles of Narnia among many projects ...
Mel Odom (born September 2, 1950) is an American artist who has created book covers for numerous novels, including a number of paperback editions of the novels of Patrick White, the Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and several books by fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay such as The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, and The Lions of Al-Rassan.
Now widely copied, the influence of Hughes' illustration style can be seen in advertising, on covers for mass-market women's paperbacks, children's books and editorial illustrations worldwide. Roger Sabin, writing for Eye magazine, has called Hughes “one of the most successful and prolific designer/illustrators of the past 20 years”. [ 4 ]
Mary GrandPré (/ ˈ ɡ r æ n p r eɪ / GRAN-pray; born February 13, 1954) is an American illustrator best known for her cover and chapter illustrations of the Harry Potter books in their U.S. editions published by Scholastic.
Cover of Carter Brown's novel Nymph to the Slaughter by Robert McGinnis, 1963. Robert Edward McGinnis (born February 3, 1926) [1] is an American artist and illustrator.McGinnis is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers, [2] and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany's (his first film poster assignment), [3] Barbarella, and several James Bond and ...