A Fine Design: Books? What Are Those?

You know how you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover? Well, sometimes you have to. Here at Westervin, we’re hard at work on a new design for the very blog that you are reading right now. I’ve found that one of the best ways to find inspiration for website design is to look at design in other fields: enter The Book Cover Archive.

As the name implies, the site is a collection of book cover designs. But it’s not just a collection of any old books. It’s a curated collection of visually interesting books, mostly new, but some old. To explore the selection, you can search by book title, designer, art director, font, or many other elements that might interest you. I realize not all of you are embarking on website redesigns, but perhaps you can find inspiration from book covers for all sorts of creative projects.

Artist I Heart: Natalie Kaplan

With runaway vacuum cleaners and flower buds pretending to be flames, Natalie Kaplan‘s photographs delight the eye with a sprinkling of red and a dollop of peculiarity.  It’s as if she’s caught these inanimate objects right as they forgot to be inanimate.  She’s surprised them with a click and a flash.
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