[houdinination]

Apart from the translators, the designers of book covers are the most underrecognized elements in book publishing.

I simply can't understand, how some illsutrators/artists who have created hundreds of book covers for a certain publishing house, (who have sometimes even designed a whole series for years, thereby shaping the way SF is perceived by the general book-buying public,) can vanish and be forgotten, even by the publishers themselves.

Especially since the payment is not the finest.

Very often, the cover decides, if the customers purchases or not. In some cases, the design is as important as the authors name, as can be seen, when other publishing houses copy design elements to increase the sales of their authors.

I hereby adress all publishers (of all genres, actually), to take more care about their visual artists, not only the writing ones.


Not my favourite designer, but I find him most interesting:
hhoudinination.de/illustrator/volkmer_eyke.html