Blog Profile / Book By Its Cover
| URL : | http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Arts / Graphic Design | |
| Posts on Regator: | 209 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.2 | |
| Archived Since: | February 26, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Calling all Publishers, Book-Makers and Sketchbook Keepers: Send Us Review Copies!
The new Book By Its Cover site is in development (thanks to Jenny) and I’ll start posting updates as we get closer to the launch. In the meantime, I want to invite publishers and book-makers of all kinds to send review copies so we have a fresh load of books to post about. (We will [...]
COMING BACK – ALL NEW- REAL SOON!
Soooo…. I’ve decided that it’s important to continue to share the amazing books out there. Book By Its Cover will return in 2013 with a whole new look, a staff of writers and a whole slew of new features. Thanks for your continued support and look for us next year! Happy Holidays! xoJulia Image on the [...]
The Where, the Why and the How and a note about this blog
Hi Friends,
Last night a friend asked me about this blog and whether I will continue it since I haven’t posted for so long. The truth is that I don’t know. I really want to but I can’t find the time to do it. I’ve considered getting an intern… but it’s a little bit hard when [...]
Mastering the Art of Fabric Printing and Design
I haven’t posted in a while but I couldn’t miss joining the book tour for this amazing new book. Don’t let the size and and beautiful design fool you- this book is filled with technical information. You can learn how to make a variety of repeats in Photoshop and Illustrator. Besides digital techniques, there’s [...]
Shakespeare’s Love Sonnets
Happy Love Day! I couldn’t resist posting this book today in honor of St. Valentine. This beautiful little book is a collection of Shakespeare’s Love Sonnets, wonderfully illustrated by my good friend, the talented Caitlin Keegan. Each spread has a sonnet on the right side, the first sentence lavishly lettered by hand, and on the [...]
10×10
Apologies for the lag in posts. I have some time to start sharing again so here goes…
I often think illustration doesn’t get the credit it deserves. People don’t appreciate it as “art” because it is often commercial and for clients and is a sellout. But I don’t feel like that ever makes it feel less [...]
Todos Fazemos Tudo
This book couldn’t be more awesome. The illustrations are fantastic, the colors are bright and then the flipping is astonishing. Each new flip is so impressive – so many scenes, so many ideas, so many shapes that can turn into other objects. I can spend hours turning the pages and seeing all the different clever [...]
Como É Que Uma Galinha…
Como É Que Uma Galinha…, by Isabel Minhós Martins and Yara Kono was recently released by Portugese publisher Planeta Tangerina. The title translates to “How does a chicken…” and the book uncovers what makes the chicken truly special. “A chicken is known as being a silly and ugly bird,” Planeta Tangerina writes, “But the truth, [...]
Sketchbook Series: Danielle Kroll
Danielle Kroll is a designer and illustrator living in Philadelphia, PA. She attended Tyler School of Art and is currently an in-house designer for Anthropologie. Danielle’s design and typography work is highly illustrative, and her sketchbook is a beautiful indication of this. Her paintings are bright and whimsical; an alphabet wears hats and shoes, plates [...]
The First In Line: From the Sketchbooks of Mattias Adolfsson
We were excited back in May to share a peek into Mattias Adolfsson’s fantastically imaginary, obsessively detailed, sketchbooks. Now, his new book The First In Line, published by Sanatorium, compiles numerous drawings from his sketchbooks. There is even a gorgeous limited edition that includes an original drawing. The First In Line begins with a [...]
Rue de L’Articho
For Editions Thierry Magnier’s latest book, they asked 16 illustrators to each create an shop for an imaginary street. Rue de L’Articho then came to life, packed with a flower shop, joke shop, fruit stand, and everything in between. It even comes with a shopping list on the front cover, inviting readers to search for [...]
Sketchbook Series: Ana Montiel
Pretty patterns and flowers are some of my favorite things in the world, and Ana Montiel paints some of the prettiest I’ve ever seen, in dreamy watercolor and beautiful color harmonies. I’m thrilled that Ana is sharing her sketchbooks with us now, filled with bits and pieces of her patterns, flowers, and decorative lettering.
Ana is [...]
Islands & Between Here and Here
These two very beautiful comics/zines are by artist Brendan Monroe. So much of his work deals with science themes whether he is painting cells or collaborating with Evah Fan on a piece about soil layers. His abstract work is so stunning, I can imagine it being very hypnotizing in person. This is a wall mural! [...]
A Graphic Cosmogony
You may have heard through the grapevine (or from an artists site) that my ALSO partners and I are working on a new book that combines science and art. We are super excited about it and I’ll be sharing more as soon as I am allowed. So with science mixed with art on the mind, [...]
Noun
Book artist and printmaker Yuka Petz created this fun book of mix and match words. By flipping the each side of the book, you can create a new nouns with crazy new meanings. Yuka started with 27 real English words and their definitions but then divided into two parts. Each time one side of the [...]
Prism Index
I think this art compilation may have been the first Kickstarter project I funded. It’s a handmade mixed-media book called Prism Index and this is the second issue. There are only 500 hand numbered copies made and each has silkscreened cover on handmade paper, has a hand-sewn binding and includes a cd of music. Some [...]
Sketchbook Series: Melissa Castrillon
Melissa Castrillon is an illustrator living in Cambridge, UK where she is working on an MA in children’s book illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. I first discovered her work in a feature on one of my favorite blogs, Where The Lovely Things Are. Melissa’s drawings have a beautiful attention to pattern and mark [...]
Nogoodnicks
Adrain Norvid call his new book Nogoodniks “a collection of dumb, slightly caustic, maybe barely even funny things” (from this article). It’s full of drawings and collages reminiscent of old advertisements and crude versions of comic characters of the 60s and 70s. It’s like illustrated one-line jokes, which I like very much. It’s a good [...]
People
People is the most recent book from Blexbolex, a French illustrator now working in Berlin. Blexbolex’s style references printmaking techniques, and is built from layering graphic shapes.
Everything about this book is so beautiful! The illustration is done in perfect color harmonies, and each person seems alive. The creamy, matte paper is [...]
Farm Anatomy: The Evolution of the Cover Design
It’s always fun to share the process behind my work. I shared the process of making the interior painted pages on Design Sponge. You can check out that post right here. Today I want to share the process of making the cover art. It went through a lot of transformations so there is a lot [...]