{"id":414,"date":"2007-11-19T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/19\/best-book-covers\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T03:29:18","slug":"best-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/graphic-design\/best-book-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Best book covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/the-years-best-magazine-covers\/\" title=\"years best magazine covers\">the best magazine covers of the year<\/a>, why not have a look at book covers too? When I first saw this selection of &#8220;the best book covers of 2007&#8221; (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/11\/17\/best-book-covers-of.html\" title=\"boing boing\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>) I thought it remarkable how the judges had chosen a group of covers that all reflect a similar aesthetic. Then are realized that these are not judged but rather Joseph Sullivan&#8217;s personal choices of the best covers of the year. Sullivan runs a blog called the <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimesbooks.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/my-favorite-book-covers-of-2007.html\" title=\"book design review\" target=\"_blank\">book design review<\/a>. His preferred covers tend to be typographic and conceptual with a somewhat retro flavor. He shows no interest at all in pictorial covers (standard in museum book publishing, my main gig these days). Of his choices this is my favorite:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/worst-years.jpg\" alt=\"the worst years of my life\" align=\"left\" height=\"342\" width=\"222\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I posted about the best magazine covers of the year, why not have a look at book covers too? When I first saw this selection of &#8220;the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[35,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}