SELECTED BOOK COVERS BY MICHAEL SALU

DESIGN+ART+ANIMATION
Peering beyond tropes.


FOG & CAR
Eugene Lim
RED EARTH
Michael Salu

Cover art: Ever Abeokuta, Michael Salu
Mixed media: Photography. Text to image data translation from deep learning model. Virtually hand-modelled sculpture from data output. Digital collage.
53 x 83cm 
Edition 1 of 3 
2021
OVAL
Elvia Wilk
GRANTA 110: SEX
Cover photo by Billie Segal
BRUCE CHATWIN SERIES
Vintage Classics
COSMOGRAMMA 
Courttia Newland
(coded custom generative vectors)
DEATH BY LANDSCAPE
Elvia Wilk
PATH OF TOTALITY
Niina Pollari
PILOT IMPOSTOR
James Hannaham
RAYMOND CARVER SERIES
Vintage Classics
NORMAL DISTANCE
Elisa Gabbert
THE COMPLETE DRAFTS
Rachel Blau Duplessis
CIRCUS
Wayne Koestenbaum
ITALO CALVINO SERIES
Vintage Classics
Homage to the Carver series
High-RISK HOMOSEXUAL
Edgar Gomez
ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Saeed Jones
Cover photo © Lola Flash
FUTURE FEELING
Joss Lake
GREENFLY
Tom Lee
JACKET WEATHER
Mike Decapite
GRANTA 117: HORROR
Cover art © The Chapman Brothers
GRANTA 110: GOING BACK
In collaboratio  with St Brides printing library
LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION
Ben Lerner
PRODIGALS
Greg Jackson
CACA DOLCE
Chelsea Martin
COSMOGONY
Lucy Ives
10:04
Ben Lerner
AMERICAN GENIUS
Lynne Tillman
10:04
Ben Lerner
THE BRASS AGE
SLOBODAN SNAJDER

WHO OWNS THIS SENTENCE?
David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu
BROKEN GLASS
Alain Mabanckou
FREEMAN’S JOURNAL
Photography by various artists
NEGATIVE MONEY
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Cover art © ____Poool
MUHAMMAD: FORTY INTRODUCTIONS
Michael Muhammad Knight
GRANTA 112: PAKISTAN
Cover art by truck artist, Islam Gull
THE ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
Sigmund Freud
DIVIDED PUBLISHING: BRANDING AND SERIES DESIGN
KING OF JOY
Richard Chiem
GARBAGE TIMES/WHITE IBIS (TWO NOVELLAS)
Sam Pink
MEN AND APPARITIONS
Lynne Tillman
GRANTA 121: THE BEST OF YOUNG BRAZLIAN NOVELISTS
FIGURE IT OUT
Wayne Koestenbaum
THE LONESOME BODYBUILDER
Yukiko Motoya
THE FOLDED EARTH
Anuradha Roy
MITZ
Sigrid Nunez
SEARCH HISTORY
Eugene Lim
IMAGINARY MUSEUMS
Nicolette Polek
THE JOB OF THE WASP
Colin Winnette
GRANTA 114: ALIENS
THE NOVELIST
Jordan Castro
MOON AND THE MARS
Kia Corthron
THE RED ZONE
Chloe Caldwell
GRANTA 123: BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 4
WHAT TO MISS WHEN
Leigh Stein
GRANTA 120: MEDICINE
Cover photo © Nedege Meriau
Wound illustration © Kanitta Meechubot
YOUNG GOD
Katherine Faw Morris
CHRIS ADRIAN SERIES
Art © James Jean
VANISHING TWINS
Leah Dieterich
GRANTA 115: THE ‘F’ WORD (MAKE YOUR OWN VOGUE COVER)
WHERE THE WILD LADIES ARE
Aoko Matsuda 
EXQUISITE MARIPOSA
Fiona Alison Duncan
THE LEOPARD: 100 YEARS LIMITED EDITION
THE WEAK SPOT
Lucie Elven
THE CHEFFE
Marie Ndiaye
THE ICE CREAM MAN
Sam Pink
Art by Benjamin Styer
THE AMPUTEE’S GUIDE TO SEX
Jillian Weise
LOUDERMILK
Lucy Ives
MONARCH
Candice Wuehle
PARADE 
Hiromi Kawakami
SOMETHING BRIGHT, THEN HOLES
Maggie Nelson
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD SERIES
Illustration © Vania Zouravliov
SILENCE IS MY MOTHER TONGUE
Sulaiman Addonia
BRUCE CHATWIN VINTAGE CLASSICS SERIES
GRANTA 124: TRAVEL
CHE GUEVARA/OCEAN SERIES
ANTHOLOGY: A MEMORY THIS SIZE
THESE BONES WILL RISE AGAIN
Panashe Chigumadzi
TRIESTE
Daša Drndić
THE CLOTHESLINE SWING
Ahmad Danny Ramadan
THE BOOK OF BARELY IMAGINED BEINGS
Caspar Henderson
CEES NOOTEBOOM: SERIES DESIGN
THE TWITTERING MACHINE
Richard Seymour
CROSSBONES
Nurrudin Farah
Illustration © Andrew Foster
DOSTOEVSKY VINTAGE CLASSICS
I CHOOSE ELENA
Lucia Osborne-Crowley
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR
Joël Dicker
THE IMPOSTOR
Javier Cercas
BATTLEBORN
Claire Vaye Watkins
THE INVESTIGATION
Philippe Claudel
(Morse code cover)
WINGS OF RED
James W. Jennings 
THE BEST OF TIMES
Paul Behrens
THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER
Andrew Porter
SHOTGUN SEAMSTRESS
Osa Atoe
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH SERIES
A collaboration with designer Liam Relph
AN ARTIFICIAL REVOLUTION
Ivana Bartoletti
IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME: VINTAGE CLASSICS SERIES
IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME: VINTAGE CLASSICS SERIES
IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME: VINTAGE CLASSICS SERIES
(photographs by Penny Cottee)
IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME: VINTAGE CLASSICS SERIES
WHEN WE SPEAK OF NOTHING
Olumide Popoola
THE FISHERMEN
Chigozie Obioma
A SMALL SILENCE
Jumoke Verissimo
THE HUNDRED WELLS OF SALAGA
Ayesha Harruna Attah
LEICA FORMAT
Daša Drndić
BELLADONNA
Daša Drndić
TRIESTE
Daša Drndić
E.E.G.
Daša Drndić
DONALD ANTRIM SERIES
Illustration © Matthew Green
DONALD ANTRIM SERIES
Illustration © Matthew Green
YES YES MORE MORE
Anna Wood
EDGAR ALLEN POE SERIES
Illustration © Matthew Green
EDGAR ALLEN POE SERIES
Illustration © Matthew Green
ELIAS CANETTI SERIES (3 IN 1: CONNECTED COVERS)
INTERSTATE
JOSE VADI
ARCADIA
EMMANUELLE BAYAMACK-TAM
MANUFACTURING CONSENT
Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, I AM ALIVE
THE ESSENTIAL CHOMSKY
Noam Chomsky


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