Geometric Pattern Book

An 8-pointed example of geometric arts in book styling.

Geometrical arts have a long and precious tradition, which is particularly important in the old Grecian and Muslim artistic tradition. In more recent times, geometric shapes were also at the centre of the so-called "golden period of graphics design", which was headed by artists like Paul Rand in the 1950s and 1970s. It was a time marked by abstracted and minimalistic designs, in which geometric designs could often be seen on the cover of the best-selling series.

Henning M Lederer's current movement designer has some of the most striking examples: Geometrical influence in artwork still inspires graphic artists and designer today. That' s why we've put together some of our most popular geometric artwork on book covers to help you get inspired by your own work.

Penguin Books' top design consultant is Coralie Bickford-Smith, who uses geometric arts in her covershapes. The Web Revolution That's Changing How The World Gets High' is a book by Mike Power that explores how the web is shaping the way drug production, buying and selling in the twenty-firstcentury and the future.

It combines the look of geometric artwork with the aesthetics of the 1980s dots and is the work of Melvin Galapon under the artistic supervision of Michael Salu. The Kapitza is a multidisciplinary designer firm run by two nurses, Nicole and Petra Kapitza, who have a common love of printing, patterns, natural beauty, minimumism and color.

They are known for their passion for geometric designs and have published their own geometric pattern application and this illustrated book. The breathtaking artwork boasts 264 colorful and geometric designs in monochrome, which you can admire at your own pace. Geometrical artwork can, if you're not paying attention, quickly look the same.

New York based painter Lourdes Sanchez took a different approach when Penguin asked him to design a cover for new issues of Nancy Mitford's book - with watered-down colors to mitigate the look. Although she doesn't usually do book illustrations, web and graphics design star Veerle Pieters designed this eye-catching picture for Aaron Gustafson's groundbreaking book Adaptive Web Design.

Having experimented with a pure geometric angle, she finally decided on this nicely stylized chamaeleon to communicate the idea behind the book in more detail. Please find here her description how she designed it. Peter Mendelsund has centered his sleek, geometric covers on the notion of the eye for a number of reproductions of Kafka-romances.

The three musketeers was the work of Hellenic artist Ioannis Fetanis. This was part of Recovery the Arts, a series of new story wrappers for publics, which were given to galleries and colleges across America as part of a White House campaign.

This beautifully slimmed-down front page was created by Janet Hansen for the legendary US fairy tale teller of 2015. At Alfred A. Knopf, a department of Penguin Random House, her design often makes use of simpler geometric forms: you can see more of her work here.