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 key ...

The famous cover design of the Beatles' 1969 album 'Abbey Road,' by John Kosh, with the iconic photo taken by Iain Macmillan. “This was my first album cover,” Kosh says, “not really knowing what I was ...

The best design podcast around—and one of the best podcasts, period—is Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible. On it he covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history of ...

Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent a book’s premise or main character without getting so specific that readers are left with little to imagine. A few years ago, ...

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, ...

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With ‘bookstagramming’ becoming a force in marketing, are designers making covers more colourful, bolder and cleaner, to stand out on our screens? To paraphrase John Waters: “We need to make books ...

At an event entitled “Do You Judge a Book By Its Cover?” at the Cheltenham Science Festival earlier this month, Claire Ward, creative director at Transworld, showed the audience six potential cover ...