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

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 ...

Below, Reed chose eight lesser-known book cover designs that are exceptional. [Photo: courtesy Jesse Reed] 1. PRESENT PAST, PAST PRESENT, 1971 “This is a stop-me-in-my-tracks book cover,” says ...

Chéri and the End of Chéri by Colette; Design: Sarahmay Wilkinson; Publisher: WW Norton. Everything on this cover is hand-painted, and with the petals and rose heads flying around, it’s effectively an ...

Inspired by the “flat design” that’s become standard on the Web, these covers take on a minimalist style characterized by bright colors, simple layouts, and lots of white space.

Eighty Years of Book Cover Design seems very much a retort to Penguin, as if to say, 'Hey, we were putting out distinctive books six years before you ever came on the scene'.

His cover for the book shows two simple illustrations against a green backdrop. ... The design featured at least one small victory against the obvious: the bright yellow backdrop.

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 ...

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.

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.