Art Break: Don’t Judge. Designing Book Covers

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Side-by-side of embellished medieval manuscript page and modern book cover featuring an illustration of a woman sipping tea on a camel.

Book cover design: Charlotte Strick. Illustration: Lindsay Meyer-Beug

Oct 20, 2023

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"Don’t judge a book by its cover" is a familiar adage, but we frequently, and almost inescapably, do judge books this way. Curator Larisa Grollemond and renowned graphic designer and art director Charlotte Strick explore color, typography, and composition, as well as the many stylistic influences at play for 21st-century book cover designers versus their medieval artisan predecessors.

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