Book Cover Design
This year for the first time more ebooks were sold than hardbacks. Publishers have responded by bringing out exquisite new releases and revamps of classicsIn his recent Booker acceptance speech, Julian Barnes did the usual polite thing of thanking his editors and his agent. But then, when everyone thought they was done, they veered off in an entirely unexpected direction to pay animated tribute to Suzanne Dean, "the best book designer in town", who had turned his prize-winning novel in to "a stunning object". The Sense of an Ending does indeed come clad in a lovely cover, an elegiac visual riff on dandelion clocks, which darkens at the edge to black, an idea of mourning that then runs over the edges of the pages themselves. At least it does in the early editions. Such little touches are both fiddly and expensive (which comes to the same thing) so later reprintings have left off the darkened page ends. It is a call, Dean herself admits, that is going to make the first editions of the novel that little bit more desirable in years to come.
This year for the first time more ebooks were sold than hardbacks. Publishers have responded by bringing out exquisite new releases and revamps of classicsIn his recent Booker acceptance speech, Julian Barnes did the usual polite thing of thanking his editors and his agent. But then, when everyone thought they was done, they veered off in an entirely unexpected direction to pay animated tribute to Suzanne Dean, "the best book designer in town", who had turned his prize-winning novel in to "a stunning object". The Sense of an Ending does indeed come clad in a lovely cover, an elegiac visual riff on dandelion clocks, which darkens at the edge to black, an idea of mourning that then runs over the edges of the pages themselves. At least it does in the early editions. Such little touches are both fiddly and expensive (which comes to the same thing) so later reprintings have left off the darkened page ends. It is a call, Dean herself admits, that is going to make the first editions of the novel that little bit more desirable in years to come.
