Rejected Book Covers

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Check out these gorgeous book covers designed by Klas Ernflo that were rejected by a publisher. What were they thinking? These cover designs are stunning and I would buy the book just for it! There are other covers on the site that are great as well.

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Posted on April 18, 2008 by Antonio in Books, Design, Typography.

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Beautiful! Some .. a lot… of people don’t know what they would have or what is in front of them :( quite dis-heartening sometimes

Comment by BillyBlaze — April 18, 2008 @ 12:52 pm

The wine labels on the site are also beautiful. Like the book covers, simple but so attractive.

Comment by MatthewNotMatt — April 18, 2008 @ 1:26 pm

some people just can’t see

Comment by Ivo — April 18, 2008 @ 2:04 pm

they look great but they don’t offer high level of communication.

Comment by Sandro — April 18, 2008 @ 3:16 pm

They have the artists name on the cover. I’m not sure how much more you need to communicate.

Comment by Antonio — April 18, 2008 @ 3:43 pm

Very simple and attractive. Artist name is enogh to me, to see what book is about. Van Gogh cover is so awsome I want to lick it ;)

Comment by Jarek Kowalczyk — April 19, 2008 @ 7:05 am

HAHA! Jarek I agree. It looks yummy.

Comment by Antonio — April 19, 2008 @ 11:47 am

pistilli roman?

Editors…probably looking for a cinematographic take an image…BULL.
Agree about having the author’s name as the main informarmation piece. Perhaps a bit more interesting color system will make it more complicated for those that like that…

Comment by Maria — April 19, 2008 @ 2:23 pm

^ I don’t believe he is using Pistilli Roman, but it’s something quite close:

http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/wp-content/uploads/design/RN_Post_Images/scan3.jpg

The tail of the capital R here is more ‘flowy’ than the pistilli one, and the bottom of the corner of the lowercase y sticks out. It could very well just be a little bit edited, though.

Comment by Steve Acres — April 19, 2008 @ 9:17 pm

Really beautiful work, there. Wow.

Comment by Joey — April 19, 2008 @ 10:16 pm

It’s definitely not Pistilli. These serifs have hard corners, the serifs in Pistilli are rounded.

Comment by Antonio — April 20, 2008 @ 12:02 am

You are right, it’s a shame that those book covers have been rejected.

Comment by Mirko — April 20, 2008 @ 3:41 pm

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