Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the ...

The winners are in for Penguin's Cover Design Award 2024, celebrating the colourful, creative and diverse world of book publishing. Entrants were given the choice of three different Penguin ...

“Two women are at the center of the cover. The art instantly drew me in with its soft, warm tones contrasted by the bold, heavy font playfully composed over the cover. The two women, their black hair ...

What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has the power to ...

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, finally, ...

In the 1950s and ’60s, book cover designers borrowed from the aesthetics of the burgeoning Op art movement, creating brightly colored geometric patterns that looked like mass-produced Bridget Rileys ...

And yes, in modern parlance, it’s more about not judging people. Looks can be deceiving and all that jazz. But many a well-meaning librarian or bookseller has encouraged readers not to judge literal ...