This video provides a great insight into the development of a book cover from initial ideas drawn from the text to the final, imho, brilliant design.
Barnes’ Booker Winner is top of the towering pile of books by my bedside and packed digital shelf on my Kindle that have built up while I’ve been busy reading ten novels for a unit of my MA.
From what I know of the book from its reviews, the final beautiful cover for The Sense of an Ending is wholly fitting for its subject matter.
Which got me thinking about other covers that reflect their contents perfectly. One cover that immediately springs to mind as being so perfect I could not imagine another version ever being necessary is:
Is there a book whose cover you think is a perfect reflection of what lies within its pages?
(video via Pippa Hennessey)
Dan Powell 
6 Responses to Evolution of the perfect book cover
Zusak’s The Book Thief is wonderful.
(Like you, I’ve a heap of books to read once we reach the end of term – so no time to trawl through my bookshelf to find other wonderful covers.)
That is a good cover. Not read the book itself but it is on my list. Great suggestion.
LOVE it, Dan.
It is a great little video, eh? What gets me watching it again is how brilliant some of the other ideas are yet the final product is just so much better than any of them.
Absolutely. Just shows the process and how important it is (any any form of art, I guess) on settling for something good, but reaching out for something brilliant. Must adopt that myself 🙂
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