Sunday, October 05, 2008

Judging a book by




This cafe was in Port Douglas, near Cairns* and had one half bookshop (new - lots of coffee table books, as well as fiction), and one half cafe (nice coffee, good open frontage to let breeze in). I quite liked the coffee and the timber and slightly down at heel but colourful furnishings.

What I also liked about it was that it had a display of 'book cover art' - little handmade posters with text and images stuck on it, telling the story of famous books, and who designed and created their covers. I think this is a really interesting element of books, that we often don't know about. I can barely name one single book cover illustrator, and yet we are drawn to the art of books, when remember a book we sometimes remember the image of the cover. Very interesting.

* (in Qld, Australia)