Book Cover Designers
Chip Kidd.....
Is a well known book cover designer who has designed who has designed over 1,500 book covers for very popular authors, from Michael Chrichton to John Updike. He graduated from Penn State and went to work in the art department of Knopf and has been there ever since. After reading the book he begins to "visually solve the problem," which can take up to 10 minutes or 6 months.
John Gall.....
Is the vice president and art director for Vintage and Anchor Books, the pictures above are his book cover designs. He studied art and design at the Rutgers University. His company designs about 200 book covers a year and he oversees all of it and 10%-20% of the designing he does on his own. He likes to play with shallow three dimensional space and also a small set of classical typefaces.
Various Book Covers
All of these book covers have great interaction between the type and the image. They compliment each other very nicely. They are all very interesting to look at and grab your attention, which is always key with book covers.
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