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Kia ora! I've unleashed my fave NZ book covers of 2025. My top pick is Sick Power Trip by @erikkennedy.com
Published by @thwupbooks.bsky.social
Designed by @toddatticus.bsky.social
Todd talks about the making of the cover: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/b... ^DR
#booksky #pukapuka
Published by @thwupbooks.bsky.social
Designed by @toddatticus.bsky.social
Todd talks about the making of the cover: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/b... ^DR
#booksky #pukapuka
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Kia ora! I've unleashed my fave NZ book covers of 2025. My top pick is Sick Power Trip by @erikkennedy.com
Published by @thwupbooks.bsky.social
Designed by @toddatticus.bsky.social
Todd talks about the making of the cover: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/b... ^DR
#booksky #pukapuka
Published by @thwupbooks.bsky.social
Designed by @toddatticus.bsky.social
Todd talks about the making of the cover: my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/blogs/post/b... ^DR
#booksky #pukapuka
End of year lists are hard.
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
End of year lists are hard.
More publishers should do this!
Exciting news! A selection of our iconic Charco covers are now available as fine art prints! Reimagined by artist Pablo Font as striking works of art, and printed using highest quality papers and inks, giving an archival life of 80 years.
Check out the full range: charcopress.com/artstore
Check out the full range: charcopress.com/artstore
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
More publishers should do this!
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Get in losers we're ruining the workplace.
Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Get in losers we're ruining the workplace.
Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.
Spine add to their university press coverage this year with 25 additional covers from 2025...
spinemagazine.co/articles/uni...
spinemagazine.co/articles/uni...
SPINE-University Press Week 2025: Special Coverage
The Uni Press round-up is back! We welcome you to our ongoing feature, now penned by designer and photographer Giles Hoover , in which we periodically highlight a selection of recent university press...
spinemagazine.co
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Spine add to their university press coverage this year with 25 additional covers from 2025...
spinemagazine.co/articles/uni...
spinemagazine.co/articles/uni...
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A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM
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I wrote a book about graphic design
August 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I wrote a book about graphic design
Dick Cheney Shot Me in the Face and Other Tales of Men in Pain by Timothy O’Leary; design by David A. Gee (Unsolicited Press / February 2017)
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Dick Cheney Shot Me in the Face and Other Tales of Men in Pain by Timothy O’Leary; design by David A. Gee (Unsolicited Press / February 2017)
“I don’t like things looking too sharp. I don’t really know how to use Photoshop”
www.itsnicethat.com/features/vas...
www.itsnicethat.com/features/vas...
Vasilis Marmatakis on the strangely traditional ways he creates Yorgos Lanthimos’ film posters
What goes into the poster and title design for films steeped in human anxieties and fever dreams? For the Greek graphic designer, it’s all worked out through water play, thousands of images mutilated ...
www.itsnicethat.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
“I don’t like things looking too sharp. I don’t really know how to use Photoshop”
www.itsnicethat.com/features/vas...
www.itsnicethat.com/features/vas...
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From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...
I missed @gray318.bsky.social's cover design (photo by Inez & Vinoodh) for Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith in October's round-up, and it's a reminder that I miss a lot of covers every month. If I've overlooked some of the work you're proud of this year, drop me a note!
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I missed @gray318.bsky.social's cover design (photo by Inez & Vinoodh) for Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith in October's round-up, and it's a reminder that I miss a lot of covers every month. If I've overlooked some of the work you're proud of this year, drop me a note!
There are some nice selections in Spine's Book Covers We Love post this month..
spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...
spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...
SPINE-October Book Covers We Love!
Welcome to October’s Book Covers We Love! The full list is comprised of a selection of covers reviewed by a panel including Co-Founder of Chapman & Wilder, Cherie Chapman ; Author of the novels ...
spinemagazine.co
October 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
There are some nice selections in Spine's Book Covers We Love post this month..
spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...
spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...
Here are this month's book covers of note...
Book Covers of Note, October 2025
Hey, I hope you're keeping safe and well wherever you are. Here are my latest book covers of note... Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett; design by Stephanie Ross; cover art by Maria Guimarães The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yoko Tawada; cover illustration by David Plunkert (New Directions / November 2025) Casanova 20 by Davey Davis; design by…
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October 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Here are this month's book covers of note...
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The cover of this week’s Money Issue, “Market Shift,” by Christoph Niemann. Start exploring: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9pBcAS
October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The cover of this week’s Money Issue, “Market Shift,” by Christoph Niemann. Start exploring: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9pBcAS
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NEWS! Plymouth Design Forum has launched a YouTube channel featuring interviews with its guest speakers. I got to sit in on one of these when the brilliant David Pearson visited back in 2023. You can watch it here:
youtu.be/06ssiY5z9bY?...
youtu.be/06ssiY5z9bY?...
David Pearson On His Journey In Book Cover Design
YouTube video by The Green Room
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October 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
NEWS! Plymouth Design Forum has launched a YouTube channel featuring interviews with its guest speakers. I got to sit in on one of these when the brilliant David Pearson visited back in 2023. You can watch it here:
youtu.be/06ssiY5z9bY?...
youtu.be/06ssiY5z9bY?...
There were some good book covers in 2020 (a tough year though reading this post back) www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2020/12...
Notable Book Covers of 2020
I didn’t blog much this year. It felt strange to be posting about something as trivial as book covers during a deadly pandemic. 2020 has been a tough year. I feel lucky that my family are saf…
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October 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
There were some good book covers in 2020 (a tough year though reading this post back) www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2020/12...
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It's PHYSICS FOR CATS publication day!! Luna has her copy: do you? www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
October 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
It's PHYSICS FOR CATS publication day!! Luna has her copy: do you? www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
László Krasznahorkai covers by the Office of Paul Sahre for @ndbooks.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
László Krasznahorkai covers by the Office of Paul Sahre for @ndbooks.bsky.social