How do you take writing and turn it into design? When your love is reading, letters and words, how do you turn that into something visual that you can represent in your home?

Well, if you are like me you can start with rows and rows of books on book cases.  But you can’t fill up all your walls with it (although I’ve tried).

My trick? Take some of my favorite books covers and hang them as posters… Neat right?

Pretty cool idea, right? But there are lots of even cooler options available based paper posters.  What are those? Well, I’m glad you asked!

Metal Prints

If you want to go all out, and you have a cover that very colorful and could use some extra “pop”, then metal prints could be a good option.  You get paint that goes directly onto aluminum (in some cases steel, like from Displate).  Check out some of these options from Displate:

Imagine that 3 feet tall and on your bedroom wall.  Nice.

Displate is a unique example, it’s made of steel instead of aluminum, and it doesn’t get you custom prints if you needed those.  The best metal photo prints companies give you a lot of options in terms of customization, size, etc.  There are even different types of printing methodologies (like dye sublimation printing, for example).

Canvas Prints

The other option is very popular canvas prints, which don’t give quite as much vibrant color as metal prints, but are lighter, cheaper, and you generally have more options for pre-made prints.  There are tons of canvas print companies but they mainly focus on custom prints.  You’ll have to do some searching to find those that have the type of prints you want.  Pictorem is one company that has a ton of different options from artists, but not so much book covers.

The best one I’ve found so far is CandlesBook, just look at a few of them: