#100coverchallenge

how do you recreate a book cover that’s become so totally iconic? i guess you don’t. i guess instead u focus on what matters to u, to focus on the lettering and keep the color palette basically the same. anyway I finally bought one of the lettering grid packs from @stefankunz cause i felt i’d finally exhausted all my thoughts for the two free ones that @goodtype sponsored a few weeks back. ✨ and let me tell you it is a game-changer.

i recommended this book to my dentist while her fingers were in my mouth and im recommending it to you too: “i know it’s about hockey but it’s really about right now. It’s about America post 2016 and our past and our future and everything that’s ever happened, even though it’s set in Sweden and it’s kinda sorta a little bit about hockey “bear town” is the kind of book that defies explanation because to explain it would be to ruin it. but it’s stunning. it’s “cat person” only it’s 432 pages and it’s not just about millennials if “the art of fielding” (my other favorite sports novel not actually about sports) was the baseball novel about our lives, then “bear town” is the hockey novel about our lives today anyway, read it. : Joshua Fuller and Christian Holzinger @unsplash

1️⃣ more books should feature quotes from their pages on their covers 2️⃣ mild illegibility is fine when it’s art right? we could just metallic emboss in actuality right? 3️⃣ is there a book you’re fond of from childhood I should recover?
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a cheeky little cover for for a v powerful collection of little stories real talk, one of these took my breath away which is high high praise from someone who hates short stories with the passion of a hundred ☀️ I should have known, @rgay can do no wrong.
: Mike Dorner @unsplash

same same but different

my first thought was to make these all the same, just in sliiiightly different shades of pink and then i got bored so we go together, but we’re different also, mother’s day is tomorrow, did you get your momma something special yet?

i just want everyone to embrace a little bit of their inner pink, okay

sometimes using photographs as backgrounds feels like cheating. i haven’t read this book in a decade (or more im suddenly realizing how old i am) but my memories are oh so fond of this Hamlet-told-from-Ophelia’s POV YA romp. @anniespratt from @unsplash

hello hi it’s been a decade, which is approximately how long it took to draw shades on each of these seven zillion letters and I don’t even know if I like it ❔ but this is the year of our lord 2018 and second guessing myself is so last year anyway this book is great and the movie is great and I just finished the sequel/companion piece which is you guessed it, also great anyway hit me up with more book suggestions i am getting back on the

really needed some stories about badass women who don’t let ridiculous shit take them down ♀️ pick this one up of you’re feeling the same. it’s quick, it’s punchy, it’s meaningful now and probably always

okay so this is a little cheeky but it’s such a pivitol scene AND so ripe with symbolism that I leaned in and now that i’ve read Call Me By Your Name i’m dying to finally see the film but am i emotionally ready for the visual experience? stay tuned to find out! But seriously, some books are just better at the movies, it’s not actually blasphemous to say What’s your fave adaptation? Maybe I’ll try recovering a movie cover version that isn’t just a still from the set

im posting this with the disclaimer that i haven’t finished it yet so hit me back in a week and maybe I’ll tell you i was off my rocker The Astonishing Color of After has color in it’s lifeblood, so i really wanted to turn up the saturation on this one as well as practice some illustration skills ️ also, it’s the pick for this months bookmess. if you’re interested in following along with my lit crit as well as my lettering, come check us out @ tinyletter dot com slash jessandtessmess @femalehemingway and i are a blast, i promise and as always, im taking suggestions: what should i cover next?

not sure how I feel about that double o, but this book is totally surreal so i’m going with it someone something somewhere along the line recommended the audiobook i think so i put it on hold at the local library and enjoyed a story i probably never would have picked up otherwise imagine what can happen when all books are free libraries are great, save them all.