cover design

Brilliant Book Cover Art by John Gall

nathanbweller — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:17:24 +0000

Japanese Author Haruki Murakami has made an international name for himself as a strikingly original and relentlessly compelling novelist. My first window into his work however, was through the work of another brilliant artist - John Gall. John Gall is the Vice President and Art Director for Vintage / Anchor Books, and it was his fantastic cover design that compelled me to track down a book who's author's name I couldn't remember. I kept going up to the employees of book stores saying, "Do you guys have that book by the Japanese guy with the amazing cover of an upside down bird?"

Thankfully someone eventually knew what I was talking about and I was formally introduced to Murakami's work, my favorite author to date. But I have to admit that more than some of the experience I crave when seeking out one of his novels is the combination of copy on the back cover, teasing me with bits and pieces of Murakami's fantastic imagination, and the equally unique and off-beat cover designs by John Gall.

I hope you enjoy his work as much as I do. These first few are some of my favorite designs he's done for Japanese Author, Haruki Murakami.

Let me know in the comments and on twitter what you think and if you're a fan of Gall / Murakami too! You can find me at @nathanbweller.

Other John Gall Designs

John Gall Art Director

Want more? John's blog doesn't feature any of his own work, but he's put together an excellent collection of book covers that inspire him. Check it out here: http://johngall.blogspot.com/

About the author

Hi, my name is Nathan Weller. I'm a Columbus Ohio based artist, blogger and freelance consultant. I manage business development here at Abduzeedo. If you'd like to partner or advertise with us, email me at nathan[@]abduzeedo.com. I also write for some other cool blogs and post everything I write on twitter. If I'm not working then I'm either tinkering around with personal projects or posting cool stuff as I find it on my Tumblr. If you're passionate about art or even an artist yourself, I'd love to connect and learn about what you do :)

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65 Examples of Awesome Album Artwork - Part 2

amanda — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:38:05 +0000

It's time for part two! Thanks for all your suggestions! A lot of the images I'm going to show you today came from sleevage, a site I came across dedicated to music, art, and design. Definitely worth checking out!

And as always you can drop me a line on twitter or facebook!

Daniel Elliott

André Coelho

Delphine Ettinger

Only50 / Society Style

Alex Koplin

KalleGraphics

Corrado Grilli

Manuel Lariño

Foe

Pete Barnett

About the author

Amanda Macedo is a designer and blogger by passion and profession. Living and working out of her backpack, she can now be found in San Francisco, CA, biking, writing, dancing, and tweeting .

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50 Examples of Awesome Album Artwork - Part 1

amanda — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:27:22 +0000

Following my articles on posters, I received a suggestion from @MateToth90 to try a post with indie CD covers.

I thought it was a really good idea so I went on the lookout for some cool album artwork to share with you guys today. I found so many that I decided to break it up into two articles to avoid major computer crashing around the world. Stay tuned for part two ;)

Oh, and there's probably more really good ones out there that I missed out on, so send me cool ones you found through twitter or facebook and I'll include them in the next one!

rulico

Matt Govaere

Razvan Garofeanu

Jeremy Dowd

Jonathan Dickson

Jason Drakeford

KIDPLASTIK

David Bez

Luke Wright

Ricky Trickartt

Lauren Burke

Three Bears Design

Gokhan Eryaman

Jason Alejandro

Nate James

Jónas Valtýsson

Oliver Ward

Thiago Santana

teagan white

Miguel Vega

Haik Avanian

About the author

Amanda Macedo is a designer and blogger by passion and profession. Living and working out of her backpack, she can now be found in San Francisco, CA, biking, writing, dancing, and tweeting .

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Book Cover Design Inspiration from The Book Cover Archive

abduzeedo — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:20:22 +0000

I'm totally addicted to collecting images that inspire me and I think that it will be important in the future, for a project or something. I believe that's a designer's habit, always saving everything that's visual appealing. Then when I visited The Book Cover Archive website I was really happy because I had found the perfect place to get inspiration for book covers.

Designing a book cover can be very challenging, trying to summarize the content of a book in only one page is not an easy task. That's why The Book Archive website is so useful. They have a huge collection of covers and it's definitely worth bookmarking it.

The Book Cover Archive is edited and maintained by Ben Pieratt of General Projects and Eric Jacobsen of Whisky Van Gogh Go.

Some Book Covers

About the author

Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. You can get in follow us via Twitter at @abduzeedo