The 10 Best Book Covers of August
A Slippery Month
Another month of books, another month of book covers. In August it was all about the text treatments for me, which ranged from spooky to irreverent to just plain clever. Here are my favorites from the month:
Weird and witchy with a text treatment to match.
It gets better the more you think about it.
Irreverent and fun!
Usually I can take or leave this window-pane technique, but here, especially combined with the text (the overlap!) and hyper-saturation, it’s really working for me.
Another cover ruled by the text—that unusual left justification, the almost-70s paperback font, the little A and extended R. Add this image (does the sham match the wallpaper?) and it’s a whole vibe.
The effect is like a stamp on a brown paper bag—very satisfying.
Very lovely gold and fade, with undeniable big book energy, and again I love the choices made with the title here—the spacing makes it.
Extremely cool art.
Simple elements made extravagant. The UK cover is also very good, in a totally different way.
Bonus: Bozic’s designs for Harper Perennial’s latest crop of Olive Editions are as scary as their source material. (The text making a crucifix for The Exorcist might be my favorite, but also I can’t look at that cover for very long…)