01. Understand the story first. A book cover should encapsulate the essence of the story. Before diving into the design, read the book or discuss its themes with the author.

Next, Olsen advises checking out some online resources like The Book Cover Archive, The Casual Optimist, FaceOut Books, and Design Observer's 50 Books/50 Covers for more ideas. “Your cover ...

The covers that spoke to ideas of imbalance, uncertainty or some fundamental searching with regard to their subjects projected an honesty that felt of a piece with 2019. Expect discomforting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. You might not have heard of book cover design's "7 second ...

A new book shines a light on book cover designs that did not make it, tracking the process from early versions which have not been publicly seen, to the final covers. No, No, No, No, Yes: Book Design ...

Doubleday Books Art Director Emily Mahon has been designing book covers for 20 years. After studying graphic design at Penn State, and an internship at Harper’s Bazaar, she was ready to leave ...

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the ...

Out of the Shadows: The Psychology of Gay Men’s Lives by Walt Odets, Penguin. Design: Tom Etherington The picture placement and framing of the evocative Wolfgang Tillmans photograph used on the cover ...