tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25921612562949816252024-02-20T09:49:31.347-08:00Jewish Book CoversThis blog is primarily for posting scans used in the presentation "Judging a (Jewish) Book by Its Cover" at the Association of Jewish Libraries conference in Montreal - June 21, 2011jewishlibrarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04938200886674971005noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592161256294981625.post-9573686406762898442011-06-21T04:00:00.000-07:002011-06-21T04:00:08.168-07:00Intro<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So, this guy walks up to the reference desk and says, "I'm looking for a certain Holocaust book."<br />
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The librarian says, "I think I can help you. We have an extensive Holocaust section. What's the title of the book?"<br />
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"I don't know."<br />
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"The author?"<br />
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"Can't remember."<br />
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"The publisher?"<br />
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"No idea ... but the cover is black."<br />
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The sarcastic librarian then replies, "I'm sorry, sir. Our library doesn't shelve books by color, but you're welcome to browse. Let me show you where the section starts."<br />
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The more thoughtful librarian asks if he's looking for <i>The Black Book of Polish Jewry ... </i>and then shows him where to browse.<br />
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An old proverb I'm sure that we're all familiar with warns us that we should not judge a book by its cover. However, there's also a different proverb which reminds us that a first impression is a lasting one.<br />
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Book covers can serve one of 2 functions :<br />
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(1) It can attract the browser's eye towards it and away from books nearby<br />
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(2) It can convey information about the book to the browser<br />
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It's my personal opinion that the most effective book covers manage to do both.<br />
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If a publisher has a title that sells well and then continuously uses the same cover design for subsequent editions, then the cover can become iconic.<br />
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The following cover, for example, should be recognizable to some of you :<br />
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This one, as well.<br />
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Those who design book covers will often resort to using a type of iconic "shorthand". In the case of Judaica books, this means inserting easily recognizable symbols into the book cover, the most common ones probably being the magen david and the yellow star specifically for Holocaust books.<br />
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Others include the Jerusalem skyline,<br />
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the Torah scroll and matzoh ball soup.<br />
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Although such "shorthand" is easier for the designer and helps us distinguish between Judaica and non-Judaica books, it can make the covers seem uninventive, cliched, and mundane.<br />
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Of course, how much one perceives a particular book cover as being effective or ineffective, unique or standard, exceptional or dull, etc. is shaped by one's personal experiences and tastes. Having said that, I've tried to select several examples of what I consider to be interesting and impressive designs, as well as ones which I find to be specifically problematic.<br />
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First though, to better appreciate the evolution of book covers, I'd like to draw attention to 5 aspects of differential design.<br />
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The first evolution can coms about as a result of negotiation and experimentation. Not every book cover is the first-&-only design to be considered for a particular book, but we usually don't see the rejected ideas (known as "comps").<br />
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<a href="http://www.kimberlyglyder.com/#973549/About-Kimberly-Glyder-Design">Kimberly Glyder</a> is a designer who shares her comps, along with commentary about them.<br />
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One of the books she designed the cover for was <i>Sonia's Sorrow</i>.<br />
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This is a concept sketch for the cover of the book <i>The Journal of Helene Berr </i>:<br />
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Here, the Magen David is worked into the focus of the cover - the journal - as a binding. It's not as obvious as one usually sees on Judaica book covers. Alas, the cover was rejected.<br />
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Here's one of the covers that was accepted and used.<br />
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A 2nd point I'd like to make is that the book's author can sometimes give input about the design, while in other instances it's totally out of his or her hands.<br />
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<a href="http://joelchasnoff.com/about/">Joel Chasnoff</a>, author of a biography about serving in the IDF, specifically requested that the book cover not contain any Magen Davids.<br />
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So, naturally, this is the cover idea that was presented to him :<br />
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I like the idea of using toy soldiers, but the pattern of their arrangement on all the triangle's sides of the Magen David obviously goes against the author's wishes. So, it was back to the drawing board and here's the final result :<br />
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A 3rd difference I'd like to point out is the one between a dust jacket around the book itself. Sometimes, the difference can be quite striking.<br />
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This cartoon baby suggests almost nothing about the book unless one recognizes the cartoonist's style or knows who the character is.<br />
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Here, if the imagery gets the book noticed, the browser can glance at the title and get a quick sense of what the book is about.<br />
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A fourth factor to consider is the way that new editions can result in new covers, even when the content is virtually the same.<br />
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Here's the concept art for the book <i>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay :</i><br />
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The image is symbolic, but makes perfect sense once you've read the story.<br />
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Now here's one of the covers that ended up being used :<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's one of the covers used for a novel by a Jewish writer who lived in Montreal :</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By contrast, when you take a look at this edition</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div>jewishlibrarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04938200886674971005noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592161256294981625.post-62240571573694457262011-06-21T03:00:00.001-07:002011-06-21T03:00:01.668-07:00Problematic Covers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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Let's start with America's favorite pasttime. Having removed the title, we can guess that the book might be about Jews in baseball. Or about Jewish sporting events like the Maccabiah games.<br />
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There's nothing "wrong" with the cover, per se. But if I were looking for a book about Jewish-American politics, I'd probably walk right past it, thinking that it was a sports book. If I were a Jewish sports fanatic, I'd probably pick the book up, read the title, and then put it back down again.<br />
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What could the missing words be here? "Flowers?" "Arts & Crafts?" "Psychedelic Drugs"?<br />
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The problem with series book design is that once a publisher has established a cover design for all of the books in a series, your book is stuck with that look if it's published as part of that series.<br />
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Does this design remind anyone of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_3rsEwYVE">opening sequence of Doctor Who</a>? Maybe The Doctor is Jewish?<br />
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This would be a decent cover for a book about Jewish comedy or the Marx Brothers.<br />
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Is the publisher suggesting that living in an interfaith household is just one big joke?<br />
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There are 2 things I don't like about this cover. The artwork along the side is abstract enough that the book could be about anything. But that artwork also takes up such a small part of the cover, it might as well be a totally black cover.<br />
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Here's another example of an almost-black cover, as well as a series style. Also, it's a book about libraries.<br />
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There's no rule that says that the illustration has to exactly match the title. Here's a cover that could have had a title like <i>The Jewish Wife</i>.<br />
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I'm not an art critic, but something about the way the colors run along this cover just bugs me.<br />
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To look at this book, you might think the title is "The Jewish Bathroom Companion" or "Tales of a Jewish Plumber".<br />
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What's great about this example is that we now know that neo-Nazis don't have such great marketing and maybe people will notice their books a little less.<br />
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This cover could be for a book of Jewish sci-fi or Jewish astronauts.<br />
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There's nothing much wrong with this cover. For me, though, the colors are too bright, distributed all over the place, and the buildings look like they've been drawn by a first-grader.<br />
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That's a lot of Vs. But what's the book about?<br />
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In case you can't see all of the text, this is a book of poetry.<br />
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Some of you might recognize this cover. For those who don't, let's examine what's happening on this rather sparse cover. There's a boy. Next to him is a girl clutching a book. There are trees all around. And in the distance, there's someone approaching with his hands in the air. It looks like he's waving his arms. What I <b><u>don't</u></b> see on the cover is anyone praying.<br />
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There's no drawings here and the strength of the cover is the title and the list of contributors. I don't understand why the use of splotches of blue and white. If the Israeli flag is meant to be evoked, just put the flag on the cover ; it's not copyrighted.<br />
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I like the concept of this cover, i.e. the scattered Hebrew letters. The dark, smudged purple against a purple backdrop just doesn't look nice, though.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This book is described as "a saga embracing five generations on Mother's side and five on the side of Father". Does anyone get that from a cover with 2 pencil-thin people standing by a big tree?</span><br />
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What better way to express that this book is about copyright than by placing an oversized copyright logo smack in the middle of the cover? I do like that. However, there's nothing "Jewish" about the cover except the word "Jewish" which doesn't draw the eye as much as the logo does.<br />
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This is a rather messy looking cover. Combined with the book's title, it's suggesting that mixed marriages are a gamble ... which is a bit better than saying that it's a big joke.<br />
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I can appreciate the cubist art style, but I don't know if it's really appropriate or a book about women and dybbuks.<br />
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A rather minimalist cover. The word in brown is "true" which isn't easy to read because the shade is so close to the background color.<br />
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I know that Hebrew numerology is powerful stuff, but I've never seen the word "chai" grow in size and leap off the page like this. I can understand Einstein being on the cover ; he's Jewish. What I don't get are the other science images beside him, as well as the atomic logo behind the title. Are all of Don's Jewish friends scientists?<br />
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Here's another minimalist cover. What makes it stand out a bit is the row of green squares with the third square from the right being blue. Is that supposed to represent the Jew surrounded by Gentiles who are so different from him?<br />
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On the other hand, if a green square fades in from nothingness to a green box, then it's a symbol of leadership or not-for-profit management. Or else it's a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/characters/tardis.shtml">TARDIS</a>. Or are TARDIS-es blue?<br />
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If the subtitle doesn't look easy to read, that would be on account of using white typeface against a multi-colored collage of color. I'm not sure why the splashes of color are supposed to represent genes, memes, memory, or anything Jewish. Myself, I might have chosen something more easily recognizable like a double helix.<br />
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If this book were put in the "Internet books" or "Computers" section of a bookstore, it would probably stand out as one of the few books with any Jewish iconography on the cover. Placed in the Judaica section, it would look so generically Jewish that you need to read the title to see what it's about.<br />
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Apparently, Jewish healing involves moving to California or Florida.<br />
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All I can say about this cover is that I'd describe it as very loud. Sometimes, bigger is not better.<br />
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So, when this book designer was told that the title was <i>The Jewish Body</i>, he thought of concrete and hands.<br />
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Whereas, this book designer interpreted "100 years of Jewish life" as a giant man jumping over houses.<br />
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For a book about the power of conversation, she seems to be walking away from it, rather than towards it.<br />
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This cover did succeed in getting my attention. It's not often that two of the title words are intentionally broken up with hyphens and separated by the subtitle and the author's name. For some, this is a cool effect ; for others, not so much.<br />
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I actually like this cover quite a bit - the bold colors, the typeface, the simple layout. I just think it might be offputting for some Judaica libraries to have a book whose cover has the Hebrew name of G-d on it, making it <a href="http://www.yeshiva.org.il/midrash/shiur.asp?id=14753"><em>sheimos</em></a>.<br />
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The cover of this Shaft book isn't so different from others in the series or from other cheap paperbacks of the period. I just thought the cover should look a little more Jewish, considering the plot involves <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">a committee of Hassidim, orthodox Jews whom Shaft at first mistakes for a posse of cowboys.</span>".</span><br />
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The size and font style make the cover not-quite-as-loud as Sfar's book. The white splotches make it worse, though.<br />
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I would point out how the abundance of menorahs is a bit much ... except you can't really see the menorahs, since their yellow is almost the same shade as the background color.<br />
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There's so much I don't like about this particular cover. The unnecessary sequence of dots, the arrow pointing us to where the title is (as if we didn't know), the purposely-misaligned statement of responsibility, the curve of the subtitle around a disembodied head which is facing away from us and is casting a Magen David shadow. I'm not sure whether to conclude that the designer was trying too hard or not hard enough.<br />
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Personally, I don't have a problem with this cover or the next 2 (which have nudity). We must be aware of the sensitivity of our clients, though. Even if a patron doesn't personally complain, his teacher or parent might --- regardless of the merits of the actual book itself. In this case, it's possible that tattoos not being acceptable under Jewish law will be offensive to certain browsers who notice the book in your library.<br />
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I'd like to add that even if the book deals with sexuality, it is possible to indicate that on the book cover without depicting nudes and I'll be showing examples of that shortly.<br />
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I'd like to conclude the "negative" portion of this presentation by showing you what I call examples of "Jewish geometry books" - books whose cover designs make me think that the book must be about the importance of shapes and forms to everyday Jewish life.<br />
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Now, I'd like to present covers which I personally have found to be interesting and effective.<br />
</div></div>jewishlibrarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04938200886674971005noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592161256294981625.post-34521098208591626152011-06-21T02:00:00.000-07:002011-06-21T02:00:01.152-07:00Effective Covers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9z1cHDT94vIAgLHVxDNvWNtQwm5yoBBT0Cc7vfPB1SkBXgYsKH03Rcaod5E_c8KDZSPqsAmnR013IuMHPzqa0pokJdo11K8dcbrE5GMJ0n2b7ZLwMIcVVByWsnY-7pQLld-0ryyb5M0/s1600/AccidentalLibrarian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9z1cHDT94vIAgLHVxDNvWNtQwm5yoBBT0Cc7vfPB1SkBXgYsKH03Rcaod5E_c8KDZSPqsAmnR013IuMHPzqa0pokJdo11K8dcbrE5GMJ0n2b7ZLwMIcVVByWsnY-7pQLld-0ryyb5M0/s320/AccidentalLibrarian.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><br />
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Although there's nothing on the cover showing that he's Jewish, the author of this librarian bio is a" member of the tribe". The use of different color to form his face is interesting enough, but when you look closely at certain angles, you can see that his face is made up of due dates from a stamp.<br />
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Lots of Magen Davids here, but the small size and their use as snowflakes makes it subtle and the Civil War imagery is equally subtle.<br />
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I would classify this cover as another mundane white-lettering-on-black-background cover ... except for the small-but-conspicuous anti-Semitic box of graffiti above the title, made all the more noticeable due to the sparseness of the page.<br />
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The Magen David by itself would have been trite, but the octagon in its center is used to contain the Arab symbol, which is both visually interesting and metaphorical.<br />
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This time, the octagon of the Magen David has an eye peeking out at us, while a finger pushes back an edge of the star.<br />
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Visually, there's a lot of images thrown into this collage, but the use of colors, shading, and arrangement make the cover seem more inviting than "loud".<br />
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The blurring of the houses on the countryside, as well as the sharpness of the schoolhouse's colors make the schoolhouse the focus for the eye, even though it's not that big on the page.<br />
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Notice with this cover that there are 17 words describing the book, yet the designer has managed to fit them all in - and with different font sizes - without making it look cluttered.<br />
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I'm showing this cover as an example of what wraparound covers can do. The protagonist looks brave enough, in that he's risking getting arrested, should a Nazi return to the car while he's still there. But ...<br />
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once we see the rest of the cover, we realize that it's a riskier move than we might have thought, since a Nazi is standing right there beside the car. As a marketing gimmick, wraparound covers are great for 2 reasons. First of all, the book has noticeable imagery whichever side is facing you. Secondly, since you can tell that the picture is incomplete, you feel compelled to pick the book up and see the other half. Once you've picked it up, you might feel intrigued enough to read the plot summary, skim the pages, etc. ... after all, you're holding the book now.<br />
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I should add that since the covers of the <i>Resistance</i> books are original, they act as a "bonus", not giving away anything from the stories themselves and leaving it to the reader to imagine the before-&-after of the scene since it's apart from the story inside.<br />
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Once again, here is an example of a title word deliberately broken up, but this time it is meant to be symbolic, not just a gimmick.<br />
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This cover is rather plain-looking, but the red background makes it stand out a bit and the italics of the word <i>Etiquette</i> (which is also underlined) make the book a little more interesting than blander covers I have seen. This is an example of how a few modest choices can draw attention to a book without the need to be flashy or extravagant.<br />
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Here are 4 examples of inserting the Magen David into the American flag. I would have thought that such imagery would be used by the neo-Nazis, but they seem to prefer to use toilets.<br />
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In the same way that sheitels hide a woman's true hair, the hair of the woman on the cover is mostly hidden, in that only a portion is shown.<br />
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This cover image would simply be a bland photo of the Israel Museum, if not for the gigantic question mark looming overhead.<br />
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Here's the cover of a book by AJL member Linda Silver. It's quite a minimalist cover, proving again that a cover need not be complex, expensive, or gimmicky to both convey a message and get noticed. The "K" in kids is written in what could be called "children's font" and each of the figures in what looks like the cutout men preschoolers make in arts & crafts, is a different color.<br />
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Another simple, yet eye-catching cover. 2 figures create 3 colored shadows, with a coffin in between them where the shadows intersect and a white Magen David where there shouldn't be, but the designer obviously wanted to make it clear that this is a Jewish-content book.<br />
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There seem to be plenty of books about Jewish views of sex and love, but I don't think too many of them have tried to merge the heart symbol and the Magen David as this one does. Plus the couple does look lovestruck.<br />
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I'm sure many of us are already familiar with Art Spiegelman and his Pulitzer-winning graphic novel. Now, let's pretend that we never heard of the book and are looking at this cover for the very first time. The artwork is simplistic, but cartoonish, so we might assume that this is a book of comix illustrations. The mice don't look Jewish, but there are 3 visual clues about what's inside. The title - <i>Maus</i> - uses the German spelling, not the English one. And it's drawn to resemble dripping blood. These 2 aspects, along with the swastika, suggest that this is a Holocaust book. However, a stylized cat head is integrated into the swastika and that tells us that there seems to be a cat-vs-mouse metaphor in play, in addition to this being a graphic Holocaust book.<br />
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Here's one of the not-so-subtly but no-so-explicit non-nude covers I was referring to earlier. Sometime a pair of melons are just that... but usually not on book covers.<br />
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This book may deal with sexuality, but that doesn't necessitate putting anything suggestive or explicit on the cover. There's enough Jewish iconography to tell us it's Jewish, along with same-gender pairings to tell us that it's about gays & lesbians.<br />
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There's not a lot of colors used in this cover, but the ones that were chosen complement each other very well.<br />
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Here's another example of a matzoh ball soup cover ... with one of the balls morphed into an eerie skull. And the requisite Magen David above the "i" in mitzvah.<br />
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More matzoh ball soup, this time with a crumpled up paper from a writer's "rejection" pages.<br />
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I have to admit that when I first saw this cover I thought the "A"s were supposed to be flames, as in shabbos candle flames. Then, I learned that they are supposed to be Babushka dolls, which makes more sense since the book has stories about Russian Jews in Canada.<br />
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A very simple cover that combines Jewish food and a smile.<br />
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Another not-so-subtle cover by the same people who brought you the pair of melons.<br />
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This is a cover that won't be appropriate for certain libraries. Even if her bra wasn't showing, the sight of a woman wearing a tallis will be considered unacceptable to more traditional patrons.<br />
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This is a bit of a shocking cover. Not too many publishers would risk combining the swastika and the Magen David. I'm not saying it's right to do so, but it certainly gets one's attention.<br />
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Our friend the atom makes another appearance, but given the title of the book, I can't really think of another juxtaposition of images that would work.<br />
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The bizarreness of the chassid using a gun (even if it is a toy) as a pointer caught my attention and made more sense once I read the subtitle.<br />
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Another book by one of our AJL members. Simply a keyboard and a Magen David. Rather than using the usual straight-ahead or looking down angle, we see the keyboard tilted away from us, like we're looking up at a mountain. It's certainly more original than many of the computer-related books I've seen.<br />
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Before anyone gets the wrong idea, this is <u style="font-weight: bold;">not</u> one of my favorite covers. It's too vulgar, plus - though it's drawn by Miriam Katin - (who is Jewish), there is nothing Jewish about the cover at all. But this is just the front. Sometimes, the back of a wraparound cover is better than the front and I think this is one such case.<br />
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This cover is both less vulgar and more detailed (in a <a href="http://lambiek.net/artists/e/elder.htm">Will Elder</a> sort of way).<br />
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Going from the bottom of the page upwards, there is the Hebrew transliteration of "bar code" above the books barcode. 3 tzedakah boxes. A pair of Jewish mice studying (one mouse is wearing a tallis). The circle K on the waitress outfits which matches the Ks being stamped on the food in the kitchen (by a yarmulke-wearing anthropomorphic pig). There's a menu below the hanging sausages which includes a "shabbos special". Finally, there's a self-portrait of the author as a child, though one doesn't know that until reading the story inside the book.<br />
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e're probably all familiar with the Uncle Sam posters, but probably haven't seen this Jewish version.<br />
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While there are the usual symbols of teaching on the desk (the apple, pens, ruler), the cover shows us that it's modern by including the desktop and mouse on the side. There's also a Hebrew book under the apple (though the title isn't clear), as well as a self-referential copy of the book on the other side.<br />
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It's not so easy to figure out what this book is about, but the best clues are the map of New York at the top and the Magen David in the number "2". The book has essays and stories about 23 Sephardic Jews who sailed from Brazil to Manhattan in the 17th century.<br />
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It's not easy to represent bi-cultural Jewish mindsets, but the designer decided to use English and Hebrew words inside a guy's head and I think it works well.<br />
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With a title like "Three Jewish Journeys", it's logical to use the font style and imagery of plane tickets.<br />
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Here, the designer cleverly plays with the fact that both words in the title begin with the prefix "trans" and simply reverses the italics from one line to the next.<br />
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Another computer-related book with a photo of a computer. However, the screen shot of the Torah tells us that the book is Jewish.<br />
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There are plenty of business books showing men carrying briefcases. This may be the only one where the briefcase is made out of a copy of Talmud Bavli.<br />
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There is such a thing as trying too hard by using too many font styles and sizes on a cover, but I think that this cover has just the right mix.<br />
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Another Torah scroll cover, but with the addition of the stethoscope, we know that it also deals with the world of medicine.<br />
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With this cover, the image of St. Louis is cropped into an octagon to fit nicely into a faded Magen David.<br />
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Finally, I have put together a series of 11 colorful covers. The use or absence of color doesn't necessarily separate the good covers from the bad ones. I have seen colorless, but effective covers, as well as colorful covers that just didn't work for me. However, the following 11 are ones which I personally find to be pleasant and effective.<br />
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<a href="http://bookcoverarchive.com/">Book Cover Archive</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bookcoverjudge.com/">Book Cover Judge</a><br />
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<a href="http://bookcoversanonymous.blogspot.com/">Book Covers Anonymous</a><br />
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<a href="http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/">Caustic Cover Critic</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cover-matters.com/">Cover Matters</a><br />
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<a href="http://jacketwhys.wordpress.com/">Jacket Whys</a> (teen/YA book covers)<br />
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<a href="http://judgeabook.blogspot.com/">Judge a Book by its Cover</a><br />
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<a href="http://shelvedbooks.blogspot.com/">Shelved Books</a> (comps for books {with details}, as well as the final cover)<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a><br />
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<u><b>Online Articles</b></u><br />
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Bass, Abby. <a href="http://www.readersadvisoronline.com/ranews/mar2008/bass.html">"Today's Cover Story: New Trends in Book Cover Design and Their Impact on Readers"</a> <i>Readers' Advisor News</i> March 2008.<br />
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Ware, Chris. <a href="http://www.gq.com/entertainment/books/201007/chris-ware-on-penguin-classics-book-cover-designs">"How to Judge a Book By Its Cover"</a> <i>GQ</i> July 2007.<br />
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<a href="http://smallpressworld.com/blog/?p=51">Autopsy of a Bad Book Cover – Part 1</a><br />
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<a href="http://smallpressworld.com/blog/?p=166">Autopsy of a Bad Book Cover – Part 2</a><br />
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<a href="http://mermaidlibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/06/peeve-of-day-judging-book-by-its-cover.html">Peeve of the Day: Judging a Book by it's Cover</a> <br />
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<a href="http://douggeivett.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/why-book-covers-matter/">Why Book Covers Matter</a><br />
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