I have completed my onslaught on the digital revolution. First I had Bebo and MSN, now I’m usually found on Facebook and Twitter. As if having my own blog wasn’t enough, I have finally signed up to Tumblr.

My Tumblog is basically a way for me to keep track of all the book covers I have been/will be looking at over the course of my fourth year research. It saves me printing them all out, cutting them all out and sticking them all down, overall I would say it is much quicker to post them up on the internets.

Just go to lovelybookcovers.tumblr.com to see the story so far.

So now that fourth year is upon us, I have been working on my proposal for the coming year. It’s been a bit stressful but I’m getting there. The final draft isn’t finished yet but I do plan on posting it up here when I’m done (because once it’s online, for all to see, there is no going back).

Along with with writing this proposal I have been looking for some potentially very useful books for my research, although without much luck. This is the part when what you are reading turns from blog post to cry for help. Of the fourteen books I unearthed I only have access to five, which is not a particularly great ratio. If anyone reading this could help me out it would be wonderful, whether you lend me a copy or buy it as a present, either way I’m good. Click on titles and it’ll take you to Amazon, how convenient.

Seven Hundred Penguins
Faber & Faber: Eighty Years Of Book Cover Design by Joseph Connolly
Book Design by Andrew Haslam
New Book Design by Roger Fawcett-Tang and Caroline Roberts
By It’s Cover: Modern American Book Design by Ned Drew and Paul Spencer Sternberger
Fully Booked: Cover Art And Design For Books by Matthias Hübner
Notes On Book Design by Derek Birdsall
Book-Art: Innovation In Book Design by Charlotte Rivers
Children’s Book Covers: Great Book Jacket And Cover Design by Alan Powers

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