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

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.

Tim McConnehey, founder at collaborative publisher IzzardInk.com, has five guidelines for a great cover design that will sell your book. ... Pick up a book, glance at the front and back covers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The Dimensions of a Cave,” by Greg Jackson Designed by Jamie Keenan. This book has two back covers and the spine is inside out. The design (used solely on the British edition) feels like a ...

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.

Getting to design your own book cover is the sort of ultimately maddening power that probably shouldn’t be entrusted to vain mortals. It’s a little like getting to choose your own face.

If there's one thing every self-respecting blockbuster novel needs on its cover, it's a silhouetted man with his back to the reader, walking away, alone. It's a style that tells you, with all the ...