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Valentine’s Day Cover to Cover: A heart-shaped gift from Anansi and Kurt Cobain

Every Valentine's Day, House of Anansi Press likes to give something sweet to its mailing list. This year, the Toronto publisher commissioned an e-story from Lynn Crosbie – author of Where Did You Sleep Last ... Read More »

February 14, 2017 | Filed under: Book culture

Cover to cover: David Drummond on designing Talya Rubin’s Leaving the Island

By Q&Q Staff

Designer David Drummond contends with bloody hands, barren stones, and feral sheep for the cover of Talya Rubin’s poetry collection Leaving the Island (Véhicule Press) 1. The first direction I explored was the idea of using a ... Read More »

June 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Cover to cover: Chris Tompkins on designing Mark Anthony Jarman’s Knife Party at the Hotel Europa

By Q&Q Staff

Designer Chris Tompkins cycles through travel imagery and film-noir tropes to create the look and feel of Mark Anthony Jarman’s story collection Knife Party at the Hotel Europa (Goose Lane Editions) 1. Before getting ... Read More »

June 5, 2015 | Filed under: People, Writing life

Illustrator Lola Landekic on designing Lynn Crosbie’s Cobain–inspired book cover

By Sue Carter

Lynn Crosbie’s new novel, Where Did You Sleep Last Night (House of Anansi Press), follows 16-year-old Evelyn Gray, whose love for Kurt Cobain is so strong, she brings the iconic ’90s musician back to life. ... Read More »

May 4, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Cover to cover: Natalie Olsen on designing Amber McMillan’s We Can’t Ever Do This Again

By Q&Q Staff

Natalie Olsen struggles to give visual representation to a wide-ranging collection of poems for Amber McMillan’s debut, We Can’t Ever Do This Again (Wolsak & Wynn) 1. I still haven’t figured out why this collection ... Read More »

March 20, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Cover to cover: Jennifer Lum on designing Tessa McWatt’s Higher Ed

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Jennifer Lum uses a variety of illustrated images to capture the humorously frazzled quality of the characters in Tessa McWatt’s novel Higher Ed (Random House Canada) 1. The author’s previous book, Vital Signs, was about ... Read More »

February 6, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

The Bear necessities: Marian Engel’s novel gets a makeover

By Sue Carter

Last July, Marian Engel’s 1976 novel, Bear – an erotic story about an emotionally disconnected librarian who engages in a sexual affair with an ursidae – became an unlikely internet meme when the book’s cover ... Read More »

December 23, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Five designers pick their favourite covers of the year

By Becky Robertson

Five top designers choose the books that wowed them “Dark” is tricky to do on a cover, because it’s an inherently uninviting trait that tends to recede into the background on a shelf or a ... Read More »

December 4, 2014 | Filed under: Books of the Year

Cover to cover: Michel Vrana on designing Blind Spot

By Becky Robertson

Blindness, violence, and semiotics converge in designer Michel Vrana’s approach to Laurence Miall’s novel Blind Spot (NeWest Press) In Blind Spot, the protagonist’s parents are killed when their car is hit by a train during ... Read More »

November 7, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Cover to cover: Marijke Friesen on designing The Umbrella Mender

By Becky Robertson

Designer Marijke Friesen draws on medical images and landscape illustration to convey the sense of Christine Fischer Guy’s debut novel, The Umbrella Mender (Buckrider Books) 1. I was very excited to find this photograph. The ... Read More »

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

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Search Results by tag: Cover to Cover

Valentine’s Day Cover to Cover: A heart-shaped gift from Anansi and Kurt Cobain

Cover to cover: David Drummond on designing Talya Rubin’s Leaving the Island

Cover to cover: Chris Tompkins on designing Mark Anthony Jarman’s Knife Party at the Hotel Europa

Illustrator Lola Landekic on designing Lynn Crosbie’s Cobain–inspired book cover

Cover to cover: Natalie Olsen on designing Amber McMillan’s We Can’t Ever Do This Again

Cover to cover: Jennifer Lum on designing Tessa McWatt’s Higher Ed

The Bear necessities: Marian Engel’s novel gets a makeover

Five designers pick their favourite covers of the year

Cover to cover: Michel Vrana on designing Blind Spot

Cover to cover: Marijke Friesen on designing The Umbrella Mender

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