EMMA J HARDY- BOOK COVER DESIGN

Book cover designer; creator of Spine, a magazine about book cover design & MA History of the book student. Nominated for ABCD Non-fiction award 2016. Probably quite safe to say that I'm pretty keen on books.

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I recently worked on my first thriller cover design for author Jack Jordan and am pleased to see the advanced copies have arrived with him (image form author).

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Been working on a few things since going freelance a month or so ago. Pleased to get my hands on a copy of this book which I did the cover for.

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Pretty pleased with how the print for this cover design came out, also sounds like a very interesting read.

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Testing out my new graphics tablet

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Last night the Palgrave team trotted off to the ABCD award ceremony (Academy of British Cover Design) and I was very happy to discover that I'd been nominated for an award in the non-fiction category. The cover was Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction - one of my favourite covers to date. My froleague Will Speed was also nominated, unfortunately we both lost to the worthy competitor Clare Skeats with 'Egg', but it was a great night regardless. The designers of Little, Brown also put together a lovely zine of 'killed covers' for all the designs that never made it through. Alice Tomlinson from our team had her 'unsafe space' cross stitch concept featured – a pretty successful evening all round for Palgrave Macmillan! You can check out the nominees and winners over on the awards' website: www.abcoverd.co.uk

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The other week I started trying to find artwork for my flat that’s related to running but isn’t an ugly motivational style poster, turns out it’s much harder than I thought it would be. So I decided to just draw my own (these two will be framed and put up next to eachother, rather than sharing a frame).

As a side note, if anyone can point me to illustration related to running that’s been done in a tasteful/subtle way, please do!

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Phenomonolgy and Science

Book cover design for Palgrave Macmillan

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The Progressive Environmental Prometheans

Cover design for Palgrave Macmillan

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The Memory Phenomenon in Contemporary Historical Writing

Cover design for Palgrave Macmillan

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Little logo design for our work running club.

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Some of my prints that I've put up for sale on the Book Design Studio website: http://bit.ly/1ZoFqbi

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Cover concept for The Birds by Daphne du Maurier.

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Running through the heart of the British library is the 'Kings Library'. This beautiful collection spans six floors and contains the books of King George III, who came to the throne in 1570. By this point, much of the Royal Library had been donated to the British Museum, and so George only inherited a small collection of books. The King decided to begin his own collection and spent much of his life adding to the library. Unfortunately, during the Second World War, a bomb fell on the collection destroying 124 volumes and damaging 304 beyond repair. They still have the damaged books and a librarian told me that some of them still contain shrapnel and smell of smoke.

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Non-metaphysical Theology After Heidegger ©Palgrave Macmillan

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Socialist Optimism by Paul Auerback. ©Palgave Macmillan

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It’s the time of the month... for a newly approved cover design © Palgrave Macmillan icon designed by Nick Bluth from the Noun Project

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Only three copies of SPINE left! With over 80 pages of cover design related articles and features, issue three is our biggest issue yet. - New & noteworthy fiction & nonfiction - Gender and Children's Publishing: An interview with Nosy Crow - Interview: Anne Jordan - Series reviews Get your copy here: http://thebookdesignshop.bigcartel.com/product/spine-magazine-issue-3