![]() ![]() If anything, this year the power of a single book cover to occupy the visual landscape for a time was outweighed by the impact that series designs have made from both large and small presses. From different paper textures and finishes, to embossing and die-cuts, even the way that the pages fall open in the hand, a book’s physical attributes remain a key part of why people who like books still enjoy them. This doesn’t necessarily diminish the power of encountering a great cover in a bookshop, of course. ![]() ![]() The book’s ubiquity was hardly surprising given the hype behind Atwood’s follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, but it demonstrated how our interaction with design created ostensibly for a paper object now often begins on screen. In terms of visibility, one of the hardest working covers this year was undoubtedly Noma Bar’s distinctive design for Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (Vintage). It’s more or less a given that the contemporary book cover needs to work across a range of different environments - from the bookshop to the online store, on social media as a gif or a shareable animation, and beyond. ![]()
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