Cover boy
Remember how bad book cover design was in the 80s and early 90s? When the first well-designed, modern jackets started appearing in the mid-90's (Manning Marable's Beyond Black & White was one) they were revelations. Now there is a move towards retro designs that recall handwritten covers, papercut covers and futurist covers from the 40s-70s (Everything is Illuminated is one prominent recent example), plus a few cool experiments.
My buddy Mickey Duzyj just got his first illustration in the New Yorker. Here's his first published book jacket, for the surprisingly high-profile Sweet and Low: A Family Story (too bad Amazon doesn't show you the full, wraparound cover):Two printing press-motif covers, the first of which, Defining the Wind, Alice mentioned earlier:
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