Cardon Webb
In
my research, I have also come across examples of book covers that work
more successfully in the digital format. An example of this is Cardon Webb's work for a series of Oliver Sacks books. These books look attractive in
print, but it is when the covers are shrunk down to icons that things
become more interesting. Together the icons form the whole:
Webb
explains, “The challenge was to not
only have each of the six books book stand on its own visually and
conceptually, but also have them, when pieced together, form a single
compelling and illustrative image.”
This in an example of books looking
better in a digital space than as a physical copy. You could lay out
the physical copies of these books to create the same full image, but
you can't do that on a bookshelf. I find it interesting that
designers are beginning to make use the digital copy by thinking how
their designs can be developed to look good on a ebook.
Yet a thought to the physical has still been given with the appearance of the spine:
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