Book
Cover
Designs
all designs & layout by
kathryn n. houghtaling graphic designer & artist
kathrynhoughtaling.com
I am a graphic designer with over 17 years experience in design and publishing. I adore books! I have designed covers for over 3,000 printed and published books, highlighted here are just a few.
kathryn n. houghtaling graphic designer & artist
he Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements at the turn of the twentieth century stimulated a modern renaissance in book cover design that soon began to infiltrate the growing mass book industry through the more progressive publishers in Europe, London and New York. Some of the first radically modern cover designs were produced in the Soviet Union during the 1920s by avant-gardists such as Alexandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky. Another highly influential early book cover designer was Aubrey Beardsley, thanks to his striking covers for the first four volumes of the Yellow Book (1894-5). In the post-war era, book covers have become vitally important as the book industry has become commercially competitive. Covers now give detailed hints about the style, genre and subject of the book, while many push design to its limit in the hope of attracting sales attention. The era of Internet sales has arguably not diminished the importance of the book cover, as it now continues its role in a two-dimensional digital form, helping to identify and promote books online.
Greco Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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A c a d e m i c / Tr a d e
Politics & Law
Vanden, Oxford University Press
Speigal, Oxford University Press
Sorkin Routledge
Russamano, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Carr, Routledge
Stohr, Oxford University Press Berry, Oxford University Press
Lundmark, Oxford University Press
Moore, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Commun
Rousch Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Anderson Oxford University Press
Smith Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Alexander Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
MAnheim Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
KNAPP Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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Gunter Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Grunig Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Albarran Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Karracker Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Hecht Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Thompson Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Light Greens see protecting the environment first and foremost as a personal responsibility. They fall in on the reformist end of the spectrum introduced above, but light Greens do not emphasize environmentalism as a distinct political ideology, or even seek fundamental political reform. Instead they often focus on environmentalism as a lifestyle choice. The motto “Green is the new black.” sums up this way of thinking, for many. In contrast, dark greens believe that environmental problems are an inherent part of industrialized capitalism, and seek radical political change. As discussed earlier, ‘dark greens’ tend to believe that dominant political ideologies (sometimes referred to as industrialism) are corrupt and inevitably lead to consumerism, alienation from nature and resource depletion. Dark Greens claim that this is caused by the emphasis on growth that exists within all existing ideologies, a tendency referred to as ‘growth mania’. The dark green brand of environmentalism is associated with ideas of Deep Ecology, Post-materialism, Holism, the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock and the work of Fritjof Capra. The division between light and dark greens was visible in the fighting between Fundi and Realo factions of the German Green Party. More recently, a third group may be said to have emerged in the form of Bright Greens. This group believes that radical changes are needed in the economic and political operation of society in order to make it sustainable, but that better designs, new technologies and more widely distributed social innovations are the means to make those changes—and that we can neither shop nor protest our way to sustainability. As Ross Robertson writes, “right green environmentalism is less about the problems and limitations we need to overcome than the “tools, models, and ideas” that already exist for overcoming them. It forgoes the bleakness of protest and dissent for the energizing confidence of constructive solutions.”
Env i r o nm e ntal
ontemporary environmentalists are often described as being split into three groups, ‘Dark’ ‘Light’ and ‘Bright’ Greens.
Wyss Routledge
Alan Oxford Univeristy Press
Senecah Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Gould Oxford University Press Berkes Routledge
Env i r o nm e ntal
Education
Hudley, Oxford University Press
Popp, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Braine, Taylor & Francis
Adams, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Pelligrini, Lawrence
Walfisch, Lawrence E
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Erlbaum Associates
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Ox Pomeroy,
Bloome, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
H i s t o ry
Romberg, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Chafe, O
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Psychology Reilly, Oxford University Press
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Wallace, Oxford University Press
Nickerson, Lawrence
Phillip
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Lederer, Oxford University Press
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Coombs, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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Paris, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Sociology, including economic, political, and cultural systems, has origins in the common stock of human knowledge and philosophy. Social analysis has been carried out by scholars and philosophers at least as early as the time of Plato.
Healy, Oxford University Press Fortunati, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Miller, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Reichert, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Sociology
Language
Uttal, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
deBol, Routledge
Lucariello, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
deMarris, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Craig, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
In Western Philosophy, language has long been closely associated with reason, which is also a uniquely human way of using symbols. (In Ancient Greek philosophical terminology, the sameword, logos, was used for both language and reason.) What distinguishes language from reason is that the former refers only to expressions of reason which can be understood by other people, most obviously by speaking.
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