Lucy Davies is a recent graduate with a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Graphic design from Falmouth University in the UK, where she focused on book and editorial design. She aspires to be a book cover designer.
Sarah Kaufman is an Associate Art Director with HarperCollins Children's Publishers. She has created many notable covers for books such as the Red Queen series, and the Outliers trilogy. Kaufman was kind enough to answer a few questions for Spine about her design process.
For Julie Israel's young adult novel Juniper Lemon’s Happiness Index, designer Samira Iravani wanted to communicate the stark contrast between the main character’s humor and the emotional turmoil she suffers from throughout the story. The plot revolves around Juniper "recovering from the unexpected death of her older sister, Camilla," Samira tells Spine.
Freelance designer M. S. Corley has always been interested in supernatural folklore. A fan of the Lore podcast since its beginning, the opportunity to design a cover for a related title was “The dream job, he didn’t know he wanted,” unaware that the book had been in the works.
Cornerstone’s Junior Designer Lauren Wakefield believes that each creative brief varies considerably. While a design team may look at many different approaches until a final treatment is agreed upon, the concept for Wakefield’s cover design for Tom Hanks’ Uncommon Type came to her instantly.
