Iain Broome

A personal weblog. By Iain Broome, novelist, copywriter and founder of Write for Your Life.
Posts tagged book covers
Things we want: Puffin Designer Classics « Huw David Design: Blog Now that, that, is a book cover.

Things we want: Puffin Designer Classics « Huw David Design: Blog

Now that, that, is a book cover.

British Book Design and Production Awards 2010 | Shortlist & Winners 

As a writer who works for a design company, things like this tickle my fancy.

We all judge books by their covers. We can’t help it. Especially since the publishing industry uses them so explicitly to ‘tell us what it is’.

Black cover + Gold Serif + Something that could easily be used as a weapon = Crime novel 

So when thoughtful, considered design gets rewarded, well, high-fives all round to that.