Lovely Penguin covers

Does Coralie Bickford-Smith have one of the nicest jobs around? She's a 'senior cover designer' at Penguin, a publishing house with a knack for producing covers so good they've become modern icons. Her cover designs for their recently released series of F. Scott Fitzgerald books seem to perfectly interpret the early twentieth century aesthetic and lifestyle that Fitzgerald's writing is famous for. I have copies of most of these books but I now want to own them in these editions. There is something lovely about reading your favourite books beautifully bound. I suppose that makes a great cover design - something that captures the imagination of the reader and will encourage them to buy the book again, just to have it in that form.

More great cover design here and here.

David Pearson's cover design for Penguin's Great Minds series. (via cosstores.com)