The way I like to work, and I belive a lot of other designers would agree with me, is to take a look at what's already out there before diving into a project. I thought of doing some research in Books By Its Cover, which is an awesome site, but I missed the feeling of actually being in a bookstore. So today I went to Chapters in Metropolis (a shopping mall in Burnaby) and spent almost two hours there, looking at book covers and taking note of my favorite ones. If I liked it, I'd write down the name of the book and the publisher, to make it easier to know which edition it was that caught my attention. Simple as that. Below I included the complete list. As you can see, I have a very varied taste. I love minimalistic covers just as much as I love the flourished ones. I went to every part of the store, minus the little kids corner. So you'll see all kinds of books: self help, romances, science fiction, teens...
For the Nora Roberts' Facelift Project, the plan is chose one of the covers from the list below and use it as inspiration for the redesign of a Nora Roberts book cover. I don't intend to copy anything, mind you, simply to try my hand at different aesthetics and techniques. The first one will be up soon!
Daughters who walk this path | Penguin
Goliath | St Martin's Press
When God was a rabbit | Headline Review
The night circus | Doubleday Canada
State of wonder | Harper Collins
Imagine | Allen Lane (I looove Yulia Brodskaya!)
Care of wooden floors | Anchor Canada
The company of the dead | Titan books
The Gods of Gotham | Amy Einhorn
The pale king | Back Bay
The unruly passions of Eugéne R. | HMH
Emperor Molusk versus the sinister brain | Fantasy orbit
The brothers sisters | Anansi
The art of racing in the rain | Harper Perennial
The art of fielding | Back Bay
A visit from the goon squad | Anchor
Let the great world spin | Harper Perinnial
Better living through plastic explosives | Penguin
American triumvirate | Kropf
How to live | Vintage
Crazy Love | Chan
The Buddah walks into a bar | Shambhala
And no birds sang | D&M
The Gentry | Harper Collins
Moonwalking with Einstein | Penguin
An object of beauty | Grand Central
Committed | Penguin
The sea is my brother | Da Capo
Happy | Lonely Planet
This is a call | Harper Collins
Take your mamma to work today | Athenium
The one and only Ivan | Harper Press
Peter Nimble | Puffin
Remarkable | Dial
Stormswept | Harper Collings
Wildwood | Balzer + Bray
Anila's journey | Candlewick
Alexandria of Africa | Doubleday
Train like a mother | Andrews McMeel
Canadian pie | Viking
Game of thrones - a graphic novel | Bantam
A teeny bit of trouble | Minotaur
Mrs. Nixon | Scribner
The shadow of the wind | Penguin
The Penguin book of Irish poetry
Vaclav & Lina | Vintage
Aunt Julia and the scriptwriter | Picador
666 Charing Cross road | Headline
Say her name | Grove Press
Absolution | Knopf
The Wizard of Oz | Penguin Threads
Charles Dickens and the great theatre of the world | Harper Press
The keeper of lost causes | Dutton
Birds of a feather shop together | Harper Design
good inspiration :D
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