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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

Aldous Huxley

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

Kafka

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

Backstory

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

Men and Cartoons

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

The Song of Names

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

London Orbital

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

Faithful

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

The Whole Story and Other Stories

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

Everything Is Illuminated

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

Fascination

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

Fortress of Solitude

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

The Memory of Running

The often calligraphic, always memorable, covers of Jonathan Gray, aka gray318.

The book is about architecture as a nation’s status symbol. I wonder why gray318 went with this angle. It seems as though a shot from street level, looking up at the buildings/type, would have much more readily conveyed the sense of power that is inherent in skyscrapers. Then again, a sh...

The Long Road of the Junkmailer

There (was) quite the discussion over on Foreword about one of gray318’s latest covers. See for yourself. Personally, I think they’re off their rocker. All frustrations I have with this headache-inducing treatment fi...

Babylon by Bus

Truthfully, if this cover has any sort of deeper concept or anyting, I’m not catching it. It’s got a great makeshift, third world flag quality to it. I’m not sure if there needs to be anything else going on, really. At any rate, it looks great and sticks out like a sore thumb on the s...

By the Lake

Despite being a bit see/say, this cover does a wonderful job of communicating the mood of the content. It’s intimate, it’s poetic, and it has an interesting tie-in to the way McGahern writes; it focuses on the tiniest detail of the foreground, while superimposing it over the shot of a larger...

The Chess Machine

We here at Fwis have recently taken up writing a weekly column on book cover design for Publisher’s Weekly. To cut back on redundancy, we’re going to start forwarding our blog readers to the PW site once a week to read the latest offering. Hope you don’t mind. This week we’re reviewing gray3...

The Mayor's Tongue

Some pretty amazing things going on with this cover, including user-submitted designs. Read up on it here.

The Secret of Scent

Here’s a question for everyone in the peanut gallery: Is this too subtle? I just wrote a long tirade about how this was too far gone in its assumption of the viewing audience’s tolerance of cleverness, but now that I look at it again, I’m not so sure. Thoughts?

Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown

I'm not sure there is another possible solution for this cover. Everything about it is well balanced, especially that short gap of microseconds between seeing the image of the house and comprehending the downward red arrow. I once heard Milto...

Eating Animals

This of course is related visually to Everything Is Illuminated and nicely creates a variegated but consistent brand for Jonathan Foer. I'm so jealous of ...