New Book Covers

A while back I created some book covers for two of my favorite books, George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm. I enjoyed doing them a ton, and got a lot of good feedback, so recently I decided to do another set of two of my favorite books by John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.

I thought a long time about the style of these, and what I could do to make them go together well. I always want to make these book covers something that pulls out something from the text that you would need to read to understand, instead of just illustrating the title. After some thought, it hit me that these books could be represented well individually by the tortoise and the hair, plus, they would go well together.

I plan on doing at least a third set of two, so if you have any suggestions for authors let me know!

So here's the first look at these covers you've been hearing about:

Here is a quick look at the old George Orwell covers: