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Book Cover Designs

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I am a graphic designer with over 17 years experience

in design and publishing.

I adore books!

I have designed covers for over 3,000 printed and

published books, highlighted here are just a few.

kathryn n. houghtaling graphic designer & artist

he Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements

at the turn of the twentieth century stimulated a

modern renaissance in book cover design that soon

began to infiltrate the growing mass book industry

through the more progressive publishers in Europe,

London and New York. Some of the first radically

modern cover designs were produced in the Soviet

Union during the 1920s by avant-gardists such

as Alexandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky. Another

highly influential early book cover designer was

Aubrey Beardsley, thanks to his striking covers for the

first four volumes of the Yellow Book (1894-5).

In the post-war era, book covers have become vitally

important as the book industry has become commer-

cially competitive. Covers now give detailed hints

about the style, genre and subject of the book, while

many push design to its limit in the hope of attracting

sales attention. The era of Internet sales has arguably

not diminished the importance of the book cover, as it

now continues its role in a two-dimensional digital

form, helping to identify and promote books online.

Greco Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Anderson, oxford University Press

A c a d e m i c / Tr a d e

Norris, Analytic Press A c a d e m i c / Tr a d e

Politics & law

russamano, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Speigal, oxford University Press

carr, routledge

Vanden, oxford University Press

Sorkin routledge

Stohr, oxford University Press

Lundmark, oxford University PressMoore, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Berry, oxford University Press

Sorkin routledge

C o m m u n i C a t i o n

ANderSoN oxford University Press

roUSch Lawrence erlbaum Associates

SMiTh Lawrence erlbaum Associates

MANheiM Lawrence erlbaum Associates

ALexANder Lawrence erlbaum Associates

KNAPP Lawrence erlbaum Associates

C o m m u n i C a t i o n

ALBArrAN Lawrence erlbaum Associates

hechT Lawrence erlbaum Associates

GUNTer Lawrence erlbaum Associates

KArrAcKer Lawrence erlbaum Associates

ThoMPSoN Lawrence erlbaum Associates

GrUNiG Lawrence erlbaum Associates

ALAN oxford Univeristy Press

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AL ontemporary environmentalists are often

described as being split into three groups, ‘Dark’ ‘Light’ and ‘Bright’ Greens.

Light Greens see protecting the environ-ment first and foremost as a personal responsibility. They fall in on the re-formist end of the spectrum introduced above, but light Greens do not empha-size environmentalism as a distinct po-litical ideology, or even seek fundamental political reform. Instead they often focus on environmentalism as a lifestyle choice. The motto “Green is the new black.” sums up this way of thinking, for many.

In contrast, dark greens believe that envi-ronmental problems are an inherent part of industrialized capitalism, and seek radical political change. As discussed earlier, ‘dark greens’ tend to believe that dominant political ideologies (sometimes referred to as industrialism) are cor-rupt and inevitably lead to consumer-ism, alienation from nature and resource depletion. Dark Greens claim that this is caused by the emphasis on growth that exists within all existing ideolo-gies, a tendency referred to as ‘growth mania’. The dark green brand of envi-ronmentalism is associated with ideas of Deep Ecology, Post-materialism, Holism, the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock and the work of Fritjof Capra. The division between light and dark greens was visible in the fighting between Fundi and Realo factions of the German Green Party.

More recently, a third group may be said to have emerged in the form of Bright Greens. This group believes that radi-cal changes are needed in the economic and political operation of society in or-der to make it sustainable, but that bet-ter designs, new technologies and more widely distributed social innovations are the means to make those changes—and that we can neither shop nor protest our way to sustainability. As Ross Robertson writes, “right green environmentalism is less about the problems and limitations we need to overcome than the “tools, models, and ideas” that already exist for overcoming them. It forgoes the bleakness of protest and dissent for the energizing confidence of constructive solutions.”

GoULd oxford University Press

SeNecAh Lawrence erlbaum Associates

BerKeS routledge

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Education

Popp, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

hudley, oxford University Press

Walfisch, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Braine, Taylor & Francis

Adams, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Pelligrini, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Pomeroy, oxford University Press

chafe, oxford University Press

History

romberg, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Bloome, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Walfisch, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Pelligrini, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

ray, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

reilly, oxford University Press

Wallace, oxford University Press

Phillips. oxford University Press

Lederer, oxford University Press

Psychology & Health

Nickerson, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

coombs, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

coombs, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Paris, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Thompson, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Weiner, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

Psychology & Health

Nickerson, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

healy, oxford University Press Fortunati, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

reichert, Lawrence erlbaum AssociatesMiller, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

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Uttal, Lawrence erlbaum Associates Lucariello, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

deBol, routledge deMarris, Lawrence erlbaum Associates

In Western Philosophy, language has long been closely associated with reason, which is also a uniquely human way of using symbols. (In An-

cient Greek philosophical terminology, the same-

word, logos, was used for both language and rea-

son.) What distinguishes language from reason

is that the former refers only to expressions of reason which can be understood by other

people, most obviously by speaking.

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