Rejected Book Covers

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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Published:: 04.18.08 / 12pm

Category:: Books, Design, Typography

Tags:: artists, covers, graphic design, publications, rejected, Typography

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BillyBlaze 04.18.08 / 12pm

1

Beautiful! Some .. a lot… of people don’t know what they would have or what is in front of them quite dis-heartening sometimes
MatthewNotMatt 04.18.08 / 1pm

2

The wine labels on the site are also beautiful. Like the book covers, simple but so attractive.
Ivo 04.18.08 / 2pm

3

some people just can’t see
Sandro 04.18.08 / 3pm

4

they look great but they don’t offer high level of communication.
Antonio 04.18.08 / 3pm

5

They have the artists name on the cover. I’m not sure how much more you need to communicate.
Jarek Kowalczyk 04.19.08 / 7am

6

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 ;)
Antonio 04.19.08 / 11am

7

HAHA! Jarek I agree. It looks yummy.
Maria 04.19.08 / 2pm

8

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…
Steve Acres 04.19.08 / 9pm

9

^ 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.
Joey 04.19.08 / 10pm

10

Really beautiful work, there. Wow.
Antonio 04.20.08 / 12am

11

It’s definitely not Pistilli. These serifs have hard corners, the serifs in Pistilli are rounded.
Mirko 04.20.08 / 3pm

12

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

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