#gray318

[casualoptimist]

Book Covers of Note, July 2023

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#allison saltzman #andrew walters #arsh raziuddin #book covers #book covers 2023 #book covers of note #Books #david litman #Design #emily mahon #gray318 #katya mezhibovskaya #math monahan #natalia olbinski #peter mendelsund #regina flath #robbie porter #tal goretsky #Typography

[illustration-alcove]

Gray318′s illustrated cover for David Owen’s The Panther.

#gray318 #jon gray #david owen #the panther #book covers #american literature

[book0ftheday]

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, cover design by Gray318, published 2009.

#eating animals #jonathan safran foer #gray318 #contemporary philosophy #environmentalism #conscientious diets

[orchidblack]

Pattern Recognition cover art by gray318.

#william gibson #cyberpunk #cayce pollard #design

[dannydisco]

from The Book Cover Archive

design credits L to R: gabriele wilson / marian bantjes / matt dorfman / timothy goodman / paul sahre x 2 / kevin brainard / natalya balnova / evan gaffney / gray318 / helen yentus / mother / oliver munday / david shrigley / chip kidd

#graphic design

[rhartdepartment]

Book jacket for Random House  |  Art Director: Joe Perez  |  Designer: gray318  |  Published 2017

#A Natural #Ross Raisin #A Novel #Random House #FICTION #Joe Perez #gray318 #book cover

[printdesignclub]

The Blot by Jonathan Lethem - Design by Gray318 (Jonathan Cape / February 2017) - Print Design

#Print Design #Jonathan Lethem #Blot #Gray318

[dearartdirector]

First of all thank you so much for such a helpful space for all of us! I would appreciatte if you answer a question about creating an illustrator`s online portfolio targeted at adult and juvenile book covers and illustrations. An expert told me on a mentoring class, that I should group and create my artwork on series, and display my illustrations on fictional book covers (created by me) if I didn´t have any clients yet. But I feel this is misleading to ADs. Do you agree?Thank you!

Its not misleading to make up projects/bookcovers if you are honest about it. You can put the covers in with a description that says “personal work” or something to indicate that they’re not real commissions. 

However, you should only make things into fake book covers if you are also selling your design skills, because you are going to be judged on the design if you are displaying them in a portfolio. There are a lot of artists that do both illustration & type (thinking of Will Staehle and Gray318 as examples) and they are hired to do the whole cover. If you are just being hired for the illustrations then...just post illustrations. ADs are pros, trust us, we can imagine it as a book cover in our heads, and it’s much better to do that than be distracted by substandard type over everything.

Once you start getting professional work you can also post how it was used on final products, but I would still have your illustration be the main image, and those being smaller or secondary images.

—Agent KillFee

#dearad #dearartdirector #agentkillfee #books #bookcovers #publishing #portfolios #samples

[booketing]

design by Gray318

#red #typography #illustration

[casualoptimist]

ABCD X

Founded by designers Jon Gray and Jamie Keenan, the Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) held its first book cover design competition in 2014. To celebrate its tenth awards ceremony this year (where does the time go?), the Academy has decided to allow regular folks to vote for a ‘Winner of All Winners’ from the last nine years – ABCD X. Committed to making the awards to be as inclusive as…

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#ABCD #awards #book covers #Books #design #design awards #gray318 #jamie keenan #Publishing

[illustration-alcove]

Alan Trotter’s Muscle. Cover design by gray38 / Jon Gray.

#alan trotter #british literature #muscle #gray318 #jon gray #book covers

[dutchuncle]

GRAY318 book cover design - Zadie Smith - Feel Free

No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard, she has boundless curiosity and the boundless wit to match.

In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, social change and political debate all get the Zadie Smith treatment, dissected with razor-sharp intellect, set brilliantly against the context of the utterly contemporary, and considered with a deep humanity and compassion.

This electrifying new collection showcases its author as a true literary powerhouse, demonstrating once again her credentials as an essential voice of her generation.

#Book Cover Design #gray318 #zadie smith

[orchidblack]

I know Gibson's partial to the Josan Gonzalez, but this might be my favorite cover variant.

#william gibson #neuromancer #cyberpunk #gray318

[c-o-v-e-r-s]

I thought the original UK cover by Gray318 with the illustration by Henn Kim was already pretty perfect, so I had to move in a different direction—the one I navigate better—typographic. Think of the two words as the main characters, Connell and Marianne: both pretty messed up, and as Wikipedia puts it, “weaving in and out of each other's romantic lives”.

#cover #book jacket #Normal People #Sally Rooney #fiction #Bluu #hand-lettering #Velvetyne foundry #ProCreate #all-type

[exseminarus-blog]

Review with Jake Abrams

Positive feedback:

the colours reflect loneliness

texture works well

to be improved:

keep it monochrome 

add informal cutout lettering with the original print

could have a hidden element (juxtapose it)

INCLUDE SCAN OF DRAWINGS IN RSJ

Jake said to look at John Gray’s work 

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[authorsweek]

Just Pinned to Book Covers: Cover for The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura, Corsair, UK by gray318 http://bit.ly/2HuQWlT

#Pinterest #Book Covers