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Post by benziger on Jul 30, 2021 20:57:34 GMT
This competition aims to identify the 50 best-designed books and book covers. With 696 entries from 36 countries, the juror-selections from this year's 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2020 competition exemplify the best current work from a year marked by unparalleled change.
Do you share the jury's opinion?
Is there one that you particularly like, that appeals to you?
Do you find a cover where you think the jury got it wrong?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2021 5:13:51 GMT
This competition aims to identify the 50 best-designed books and book covers. With 696 entries from 36 countries, the juror-selections from this year's 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2020 competition exemplify the best current work from a year marked by unparalleled change.
Do you share the jury's opinion?
Is there one that you particularly like, that appeals to you?
Do you find a cover where you think the jury got it wrong?
I like "A Garden at Night." Evokes interest. Almost arrests the heart.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Jul 31, 2021 12:45:24 GMT
I do not share the "jurors'" opinion.
I looked down through them three times and only saw one cover that caught my interest in the least and frankly, it was poorly proportioned. In fact the vast majority were difficult to even look at. Garbage.
Perhaps I have no taste?
I wonder what Ron's thoughts about them are?
LATER: OK, I looked through them all a fourth time. I see three that catch my eye for more than one second, but I certainly wouldn't call them "award-winning".
But I have to add the disclaimer: I am not one who thinks splatters of paint on a canvas, or a photo of a crucifix in a jar of urine, or a sheet of cloth draped across a valley are "art".
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Post by Ken on Jul 31, 2021 14:02:57 GMT
None of them spark any interest for me.
All pretty mundane.
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Post by ronmiller on Aug 3, 2021 11:47:05 GMT
Some are certainly more successful than others. (caveat: the "50 Books Winner" banner across all the covers doesn't help since this often hid significant portions of a cover. And some of the covers were reproduced even smaller than they ever would appear online or from photos of the book itself laying at an angle)
I think that one of the first criteria for a good book cover is that the title be readable. So if you have to take time to puzzle out what the title says, especially if the book is at thumbnail size. that's a mark against you.
"Delirium" and "Social Act" might fall into that category. And "Made in LA 2020" is too easily read as "Made in 20 LA 20."
Clever design can certainly be a plus...but cleverness for its own sake can sometimes work against you.
But there are quite a few covers that I like very much.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jan 22, 2022 21:12:43 GMT
Well, I only just noticed this. But it always seems to be a matter of taste, so it depends who the judges are. Some will say a cover is good because it's on the front of a very successful book. But there's often more to it than that. Marketing for example.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jan 25, 2022 1:13:51 GMT
BTW. I think I may set up a competition site. $100 an entry?!
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