Welcome to Cover Awe! This is the place where we discuss covers that we like and/or find utterly gorgeous.
Amanda: The cover definitely captures the characters!
Elyse: I love his little smile.
Sarah: I adore everything about this cover, most especially how happy he looks to be kissing her. *Happy sigh*
Elyse: Pink and gold are my favorite colors and pretty much guarantee an auto buy.
Amanda: I love the look on her face. There’s some trepidation, but also “fuck it, I’m going to do this anyway.”
Sarah: Whatever is happening next, I’m on her side.
Amanda: The cover is stunning in person. The feather is this gold/bronze shiny element that really makes it look 3D.
Sarah: Treatments like that are so cool.
Amanda: Seriously, view this baby in person whenever you’re at a bookstore next.
Amanda: I was putting together a previous Whatcha Reading post and Elyse talked about this book. I’m so in love with this cover and, if I saw this on a table in a bookstore, I’d definitely pick it up.
Sarah: I stan for cover designers. There are so many levels to this image and I love all of them.
Have you noticed that all of the people featured on these covers have clothes on? I’m no prude, but I really liked that on the first cover — the only one with a couple, they are both wearing jeans, instead of him being fully covered and her one inch away from a clothing malfunction.
Also, in that last one, is it just me, or does he look like Frida Kahlo?
The bottom one puts me in mind of Kehinde Wiley. And yes @Heather T, the clothes! I am so tired of Photoshopped bodybuilders and women in evening gowns which won’t stay up.
I’m afraid to say that the cover for Making Up was the only good thing I can say about the book. What a disappointment.
@Kathy: I immediately thought Kehinde Wiley too, even before I read your comment. Interestingly, given that it’s a print book from a major publisher, that cover must have been in the works a long time ago – a year, maybe? – so well before the Obama portrait was unveiled. Wiley’s been working a long time, and he’s been well known and had major shows touring the country for awhile — we went to one in Seattle three years ago, I think. So it’s no surprise that the cover artist and everyone involved in the book would know about Wiley. But it’s certainly a nice plus for them that the Obama portrait had such similar iconography!