![]() ![]() ![]() They came back with an astounding 89 different book covers that impressed, delighted, and inspired them, representing work by 54 designers for 44 different publishers. So for the fifth year in a row, I surveyed a group of professional book cover designers (this year it was 29 of them) about their favorite covers of the year. I’m so excited to see how cover design changes from the ripple effect that this monumental year has created.” Me too. As designers we have this little power to propose what visual goes with these great stories, and in our current climate that is both exciting and no easy feat. ![]() Or, as Janet Hansen wrote in the note accompanying her choices, “I must admit-book cover design was not much on my mind this year (!), but this was a great exercise to reflect on what we do and whose work we admire. There were some stunning book covers created by some fantastic artists, and while they didn’t exactly solve the pandemic, they did make staying in my apartment all day long a little better. So consider it acknowledged, and I’ll follow that with the customary: and yet. It may actually be mandatory at this point to begin any kind of 2020 roundup with an acknowledgement of how shit the year was, and how impossible it was to focus on the good parts, and how anything roundup-able seems a little beside the point, all things considered. ![]()
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