Tomes to Thrill and Chill: A Survey of Halloween Book Covers
This Halloween season, Minneapolis-based DreamHaven Books and Comics gathers a selection of their favorite spine-tingling book covers from the last five decades.
Since before the advent of the printing press, the design of books has been a cornerstone of designers’, illustrators’, and other craftspersons’ practices. No piece of this work is more visible than the book cover. Inviting various voices from both inside and outside of traditional design practices, the series You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover offers new perspectives on too-often overlooked aspects of book covers.
Reading into Ecological Stewardship: A Survey of Earth Day Book Covers
In celebration of Earth Day, Elizabeth Carls of Saint Paul based Egg|Plant Urban Farm Supply gathers a selection of books spanning multiple genres that celebrates localism, sustainability, food sovereignty, and good ecological stewardship.
We Can Go Further: A Survey of Book Covers for Juneteenth
A survey of book covers by the St. Paul Black-owned and operated bookstore, Black Garnet Books, that act as fresh, unique love letters to the Black adults who spent their entire childhoods never having picked up a book featuring a character that looked like them, and the kids who will never have to know what that’s like.