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Design Devices: Sculptures

Putting 3D on 2D

Design Devices: Sculptures

Putting 3D on 2D

Here are 12 covers that use sculptures, figurines, or digital renderings of an imagined physical object as the primary piece of interest. Explore the tag “sculpture” to see more.

*If you’re able to provide any missing design credits or if you have suggestions for expanding this list, please write me at ineedabookcover.site@gmail.com or DM @zoenorvell on Instagram.

The Kingdom of Surfaces by Sally Wen Mao

Graywolf Press

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Designer: Chris Brand, 2009

How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti

Designer: Kelly Blair, 2013

Motherhood by Sheila Heti

Designer: Na Kim, 2019, “inspired by Kelly’s design” above

True Love by Sarah Gerard

Designer: Joanne O’Neill, 2020

Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey

Designer: Chip Kidd, 2015

How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

Designer: Jaya Miceli, “Holding Hands” by Daniel Arsham, 2021

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

Designer: Keith Hayes, artwork by Sasha Vinogradova, 2023

Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust

Flatiron Books, artwork by Sasha Vinogradova, 2023

Social Engagement by Avery Carpenter Forrey

Designer: Jaya Miceli, 2023

The Narrow Circle by Nathan Hoks

Designer: Alison Forner, 2013

Bluest Nude by Ama Codjoe

Milkweed Editions, 2022

Middle C by William H. Gass

Designer: Gabriele Wilson, 2013

I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry by Nina Boutsikaris

Black Lawrence Press, Designer: Zoe Norvell, 2019

Dada

2015

How Not to Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin

Designer: Kelly Blair, artwork by Kent Rogowski, 2023

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