Covers Do Matters
“Don’t Judge Book by Its Covers”.
So the old wisdom said. However, cover books has been made for us to be judged, naturally. Well, at least that theory works on me. Today I found an interesting article on Smashing Magazine with the title: Excellent Cover Books and Paperbacks, and I don’t know why, I was really amused to see all of them. It is said that an effective book cover manages to catch human’s eye and convey the idea behind the book on one single page. However, it’s getting even harder: to make a book really hard to forget, designers need to design the cover in a unique, creative and striking way. Here’s some of them:
Clockwork Orange
Exile and The Kingdom
Nikelleo Rellana’s Work
Soviet Science Fiction
St. Cyber
War Gaming
The Creative Process (I have this one, and it’s a good book!)
A General Theory of Love
One Red Paperclip
if you have read cormac mccarthy’s “the road,” the cover is nothing. or perhaps it was intended to be that way?
here in my country, cover artists and photographers for books are paid handsomely, even much more than the writer/s of the book. how ironic is that?
Angus Miranda
April 14, 2008 at 3:13 pm
wow, I can’t imagine how the writer’s feel when they find that the cover artists’ payments are higher? But I think that’s fair enough since cover book does matters (according to my opinion) in the customers’ consideration when they randomly buy a book.
hmmm, it still ironic though.
khrisnaresa
April 15, 2008 at 3:43 pm
covers do help. but covers are not the reasons why we buy books.
Angus Miranda
April 16, 2008 at 7:55 am
I love the last one.
Disa
April 20, 2008 at 8:37 am
hehe..insightful posting. Yupe covers do matter. that’s why we learn about visual communication, how to sell without thousand words, by create an impactful cover and has stopping power (taelah, bahasa gw sok marketing;p)
hehe mampir ya, got ur link from facebook…klo sempet mampir juga ke adverblog.com or ihaveanidea.org: a lot of ideas and insights!
Novi Kresna
June 19, 2008 at 9:33 am