Rittsu’s top 14 tips will guide you toward stunning results and help you elevate your book cover designs to new heights. For ...

You might not have heard of book cover design's "7 second" test, but if you've ever wondered through a bookstore, you've undoubtedly tried it yourself. Pick up a book, ...

I’ve been a book designer since the 1990s, working with some of Australia’s and the United Kingdom’s leading publishers. These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing.

Turner has done some contemporary book cover design as well, creating the cover of Sofija Stefanovic’s 2018 memoir Miss Ex-Yugoslavia. But her book portraiture has steeped her in the literary ...

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.

In fact, judging a book by its cover might not be such a bad thing. A cover can help readers get a sense of what a book is going to be about, or pique their interest in the story.

Indeed, many of the best book covers rival the best print ads when it comes to design ingenuity. We may only be a couple of months into 2025, but we've already seen some stunning book covers.

Back Bay Books. The patient zero of flat women might be Bernadette, the heroine and cover star of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple, from 2012. On that cover, a woman’s face floats ...

With series design, each book cover must stand out but also somehow blend in. Cover designer Jack Smyth’s latest series design is for a remarkable writer, Italo Calvino, and spans a remarkable number ...

Paperback The Vintage cover ditched the thin, hardcover scribble for a stylized eggshell font over warm clouds of yellows, greens, oranges and reds, meant to evoke subtler elements, like ...