Writer and editor Mark Sinclair reflects on the influence that the digital world has had on our understanding of book cover design, before rounding up his favourite covers of the year Ahead of sharing ...

If you’re an author wondering how to create the ideal book cover for your work, deciding between AI-generated designs and professional design services can feel challenging. The book cover is a ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor ... graduation—until she found some of Peter Mendelsund’s book cover designs online. Tatone immediately knew how she wanted to put her ...

The Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) has revealed its winners for the best book designs of the year in addition to a special competition for the “winner of ...

The unearthing of analog book covers offers an opportunity to give lesser known, but brilliantly executed, designs their due. He wanted to revisit the foundational rules of what some consider to ...

Of course, this isn’t to say that what hits the market is bad—in fact, I’d contend we’re in a golden age of book cover design, with each publishing season bringing a deluge of insanely ...

If most book cover designs are conceived as quick-to-metabolize ... to reconsider the story and its characters on fresh terms. If, after the last page, the world looks more expansive and nuanced ...

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.

These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing. A cover designer’s role is to interpret a book visually, reflecting what the author and publisher have achieved in the text.

“I didn’t get the music, but I definitely got the design.” Image Ms. Goldberg was formally restless, her fellow designer Peter Mendelsund said. “Every single great book cover she made was ...