New Work: Canongate Books
Angus Hyland and his team have designed book covers for four new releases from Edinburgh-based publisher Canongate Books: The Life of Pi: Illustrated Edition by Yann Martel, The Crimson Petal & the White and The Apple by Michel Faber and The Gift by Lewis Hyde.
Hyland’s relationship with Canongate has been ongoing since the launch of the acclaimed Pocket Canons series in 1998. In the subsequent years, he has designed over 100 book covers, as well as their website.
Images of Angus Hyland’s new book cover designs after the jump.
The Life of Pi: Illustrated Edition is a hardback special edition of Yann Martel’s Booker-prize winning novel. The illustrator, Tomislav Torjanac, was chosen from thousands of applicants to an international competition held by Canongate. Angus Hyland designed the cover with design assistant Masumi Briozzo.
Endpapers from The Life of Pi: Illustrated Edition, featuring Tomislav Torjanac’s painting of a tiger, based on a Victorian engraving used in one of Hyland’s draft versions of the cover.
The Crimson Petal and the White and The Apple: Crimson Petal Stories by Michel Faber, designed by Angus Hyland with design assistant Fabian Herrmann.
The Gift by Lewis Hyde, designed by Angus Hyland with design assistant Masumi Briozzo.
Photography by Nick Turner.