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

Some book covers make you look, and some make you look and say ‘Oh that’s clever’ to yourself. I’ve not seen this audacious approach before – a pleasing inversion of conventional text hierarchies ...

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 ...

How a cover illustration can make or break a book. Story by Marina E. Franco (Noticias Telemundo for Axios) • 3d. Designer and illustrator Micaela Alcaino wants you to judge a book by its cover.

This book considers a notoriously unsung artist long relegated to the margins of history, and its cover is a tribute that manages to hit notes of bawdiness and reclamation while at the same time ...

Most videos on book cover designer Elisha Zepeda’s TikTok account have a similar format: he gets an assignment from a publisher, crafts several options, gets feedback, makes some tweaks, and ...

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.

If most book cover designs are conceived as quick-to-metabolize marketing tools, a great one can make the reader do a double take in slow motion. A good first impression is, ...