Kim Roselier is bringing tactility back into digital reading via book cover design

Date
23 September 2014

I’m all for embracing new modes of experiencing literature, but when choosing to read novels on an iPad or tablet requires that you select a dull digital alternative cover – one with a hunk of Helvetica slapped thoughtlessly over a low-res image, or similar – I can’t help by find myself reaching for a paperback. Fortunately publishers like Frenchies Les Livres Mouvants are a step ahead of their game, commissioning beautiful books covers for their digital reads which will even out the playing field.

Kim Roselier is the lady responsible for these images; she’s an illustrator working primarily in watercolour whose work harks back to a time when tactility was key. Her effortless mastery of her medium injects a dose of the handmade back into digital reading, so that even if you’re not flaunting her paintings at whoever’s sat opposite you on the Tube, it’ll still be secretly spreading like wildfire through the readers of the world. There’s other excellent work in her portfolio too – get a load of it here.

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Kim Roselier: Book Cover Design

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Kim Roselier: Book Cover Design

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Kim Roselier: Book Cover Design

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Kim Roselier: Book Cover Design

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Kim Roselier: Book Cover Design

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Kim Roselier: Book Cover Design

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Kim Roselier: Book Cover Design

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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