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Graphic Design: Unusual book jackets by the very talented Linda Huang

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Date
20 June 2013

Some lovely book design here from Brooklyn-based designer Linda Huang, whose love for the hand-drawn breathes fresh air into the titles she works on, making them incredibly desirable. The book that really won us over was her work for The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which she made by spreading thick lines of ink vertically down the cover to create stripes that are at once leafy and plant-like, while still resembling juicy spines of books. Very nice! Linda currently designs at the wonderful publishers Knopf and Pantheon Books and is also freelancing in her spare time.

A book cover featuring a yellow-toned portrait of a person. Bold red text at the top reads “YU HUA”, with a white circle on the left reading “Boy in the Twilight” and a black circle on the right reading “Stories of the Hidden China”.
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Linda Huang: Yu Hua: Boy in the Twilight

A book cover featuring a geometric, crystalline shape made of blue and white shards. Black triangles within the form contain the title “The Book of Heaven” and the author “Patricia Storace”, with the words “a novel” written on a white facet.
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Linda Huang: Book of Heaven

An illustration of a row of green, painterly vertical stripes resembling book spines. White text reads “2011”, “SPRING”, “GROUP”, “PUBLISHING”, “DOUBLEDAY”, “KNOFF” and “THE”. Small white icons sit at the base of each stripe.
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Linda Huang: The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

A minimalist poster featuring five vertical green brushstrokes of varying widths and shades. Above the strokes, the text reads “SPRING 2011”.
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Linda Huang: The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

The cover of a book titled “A Field Guide to American Houses” by Virginia Savage McAlester. The title is surrounded by simple line drawings of various house styles in blue, red, orange and green.
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Linda Huang: A Field Guide to American Houses

A book cover featuring a yellow and white ribbon winding down a dark blue background. The ribbon reads “JUST RUN IT!” followed by “RUNNING AN EXCEPTIONAL BUSINESS IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK”. The author’s name, “DICK CROSS”, is printed at the bottom.
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Linda Huang: Just Run It

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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