{"id":25207,"date":"2016-08-11T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=25207"},"modified":"2016-08-11T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T07:01:21","slug":"50-books-50-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/50-books-50-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Books 50 Covers &#8212; How Top Designers Catch the Reader&#8217;s Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2016\/08\/11\/50-books-50-covers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2016\/08\/11\/50-books-50-covers\/ noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25209\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/stark-Sophie.jpg\" alt=\"life and eath of sophie stark book cover. 50 books 50 covers\" width=\"270\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2016\/08\/11\/50-books-50-covers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2016\/08\/11\/50-books-50-covers\/ noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25210\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ManualforCleaningWomen.jpg\" alt=\"manual for cleaning women cover. 50 books 50 covers\" width=\"255\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/em>Want to see some gorgeous book cover designs? Go to the winners page of the 50 Books 50 Covers competition\u00a0sponsored by the Design Observer Group <!--more-->and discover some ingenious attempts at hooking in readers.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Lenger&#8217;s beautiful design for &#8220;Wrestling with God&#8221; didn&#8217;t make the final fifty cut. But look for it with dozens of other\u00a0contenders\u00a0on the nominees page. These covers are arranged alphabetically, so you&#8217;ll have to scroll, scroll, scroll to locate WWG toward the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m posting here just a few\u00a0of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p><em>More treats for the eye at <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2014\/07\/17\/institute-of-mosaic-art-a-berkeley-spin-on-an-ancient-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Institute of Mosaic Art &#8212; A Berkeley Spin on an Ancient Art.<\/a>&#8221; Also, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2013\/10\/10\/the-ghost-of-300-million-drought-killed-trees-hovers-over-a-lake-in-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8220;The Ghost of 300 Million Drought-Killed Trees Hovers Over a Lake in Texa<\/em>s.<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2016\/08\/11\/50-books-50-covers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2016\/08\/11\/50-books-50-covers\/ noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25214\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/OnceInAHouseOnFire.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the book once in a house on fire. 50 boos\/50 covers\" width=\"270\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2016\/08\/11\/50-books-50-covers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2016\/08\/11\/50-books-50-covers\/ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25215\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SpringChicken.jpg\" alt=\"cover of the book spring chicken. 50 books\/50 covers\" width=\"270\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2016\/08\/11\/50-books-50-covers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2016\/08\/11\/50-books-50-covers\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25209 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/stark-Sophie.jpg\" alt=\"stark Sophie\" width=\"250\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a>Want to see some gorgeous book cover designs? Check out the 50 Books 50 Covers competition. <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2016\/08\/11\/50-books-50-covers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,50],"tags":[1770,653,134,1500,1771,1772,1381,1576],"class_list":["post-25207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-openers","category-on-writing-reading","tag-50-books-50-covers","tag-arts-and-crafts","tag-books","tag-contests","tag-covers","tag-design","tag-michelle-lenger","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}