A cover is likely a reader’s front door to a book. The art needs to entice, convey the subject—books on nature will probably have an image from the natural world; a science fiction novel might ...

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.

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Many readers are still reeling from Wind and Truth, but Brandon Sanderson’s upcoming science-fiction and fantasy collection ...

Australian book cover designer WH Chong has won numerous awards for his book designs. And speaking to Spook Magazine, he singled out some of his favorite book cover designs for classic science ...

“So many covers tossed aside fail-safe choices this year and pursued directions that allowed for the possibility of art,” the Book Review’s art director writes.

Keith Hayes, who designed the Bernadette cover for publisher Little, Brown, told me via email that he didn’t have any intention of using the flat design style or starting a trend when he ...

Penguin Science Fiction covers of The Terminal Beach, The Wind from Nowhere, and The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard, design by David Pelham, who was the art director at Penguin Books between 1968 and ...

His cover for the book shows two simple illustrations against a green backdrop. One is a human eye; the other is a fly's eye. It doesn't just say you're about to read a book about a guy who turns ...

In the early 1980s, she started her own design firm, working primarily on book covers. In 1982, Warner Bros. Records called to ask whether she was interested in designing an album cover for a ...