Book Jacket Designs by Rex Bonomelli
Judge a Book By Its Cover - Book Jacket Designs by Rex Bonomelli
Rex Bonomelli is a freelance graphic designer who splits his time between Brooklyn, NY and Palm Springs, CA. He began working in the publishing industry in 1997 as an intern at Little, Brown. Since then, he has worked at various design studios and publishers including SpotCo, Doubleday/Broadway, Scribner, The New York Times, and The Metropolitan Opera. Rex’s work has been recognized by many organizations and publications including AIGA, Communication Arts, Graphis, Print, and the Type Director’s Club. He is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts.
Judge a Book By Its Cover - Book Jacket Designs by Rex Bonomelli
What inspired your design for Under the Gilded Moon by Joy Jordan-Lake?
Under a Gilded Moon is a wonderful historical novel set in 1890s North Carolina. It tells an upstairs/downstairs story of a young woman from the beautiful, but poverty-stricken, Appalachians, clashing with the opulent, newly-constructed Biltmore Estates.
For the cover, the team at Lake Union had a simple idea that they wanted me to try. We wanted to show a woman from the point of view of the Biltmore Estates looking out onto the Blue Ridge Mountains. The idea was to focus in on the main character whose modest background would contrast with the wealth of her changing environment. After one or two attempts at that, it became clear that the beauty of the imagery was in the woman. So we narrowed our focus onto the woman and played up the evocative title and the design elements.
Judge a Book By Its Cover - Book Jacket Designs by Rex Bonomelli
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Judge a Book By Its Cover - Book Jacket Designs by Rex Bonomelli
Judge a Book By Its Cover - Book Jacket Designs by Rex Bonomelli
Judge a Book By Its Cover - Book Jacket Designs by Rex Bonomelli
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