Peter mendelsund

A couple weeks ago I saw an article about Peter Mendelsund’s new book on book cover design; and I scoffed. Now I just saw another article on Wired, shared by Tim Ferriss. Peter is obviously doing the rounds (and quite well) to promote his new book. Kudos to him. Here’s the big problem: Peter’s had […]

Ulysses has been included in the Best Book Covers of 2013 by the New York Times.

Considering I'm about to marry an author, books have become part of my everyday world. Especially those of literature. Recently, while discussing the literary magazine , The Modern Review , I started researching book cover designs and stumbled upon these great Kafka covers by Peter Mendelsund f

Some things take a few tries to get right, be it baking, swimming, snogging, or a book jacket design for a much-loved title. In designer Peter Mendelsund's case, it was the latter he struggled with, and when asked to come up with a book cover for Julio Cortázar's _Hopscotch_, he and a whole host of other designers set to work trying to whittle it down into a a book-sized visual. _The New York Times_ made a "list of the…

Helvetica in Use

The sharp-eyed editors over at Design Observer just released their list of winners from the latest installment of the website’s annual 50 Books/50 Covers design competition — as selected by their special 35-person advisory panel — and boy is it full…

Fantastic selection of book covers by Peter Mendelsund, who’s been described by the New York Times as “one of the top designers at work today”.

Chicago Graphic Design

Hopscotch