Site: Book Cover Archive

by Matt on 07 February 2010

http://bookcoverarchive.com/

Quite literally an archive of loads of lovely book covers. One for you lovers of print.

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Pros

Covered

A truly great resource for designers this. Really cleanly and semantically made site, a bit like Flickr for book cover designs.

Each book cover has a URL with lots of associated labels and information about it which you can use to browse the collection by: author, designer, typeface etc.

It’s also an elegantly simple site with a nice clean homepage and really useful footer - how often can you say that?

Cons

Torn

There are a few features missing, such as the ability to browse by tags for more abstract qualities of the design but the little to-do list at the bottom shows you they want to add this to the site anyway! Great idea.

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