Learning from the Past
filed in Book Artwork and Illustrations, Book Cover Illustrations and Artwork on Feb.10, 2011
While it’s good to keep up on what the latest trends in book cover design and artwork may be (to avoid some of the cliches if nothing else), looking to the past for inspiration is often a fruitful exercise.
Penguin recently made this a little easier to do by posting a wonderful collection of the publisher’s vintage science fiction book covers. These are an amazing resource worth exploriing for both the book artist as well as those wanting to hire an illustrator to create a book cover for them.
And for those fans of science fiction, a few of these pictures (like covers for Harry Harrison, Frank Herbert, Geoffrey Hoyle, Philip K Dick and other novels) may even bring back some fond memories of days past when the chance discovery of a new author opened up new worlds of imagination.
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When not “borrowing” ideas from other book cover artists, Duncan Long creates book illustrations for publishers and self-publishing writers. Long has created book illustrations for HarperCollins, Pocket Books, ISFiC Press, and many other presses as well as numerous self-publishing writers. You can find more of his book illustrations at: http://DuncanLong.com/art.html
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