Out of the Shadows: The Psychology of Gay Men’s Lives by Walt Odets, Penguin. Design: Tom Etherington The picture placement and framing of the evocative Wolfgang Tillmans photograph used on the cover ...

Hardcover Nicolette Seeback Ruggiero, Holt’s art director, found — and cropped — “The Swimming Pool,” a 2016 painting by T.S. Harris, on Bridgeman Images, a highbrow stock website that ...

Ten designers talk about how they created the year’s best book covers, including My Sister, The Serial Killer, Cherry, Emergency Contact, Friday Black, The Friend, Killing Commendatore, My Year ...

Below, Reed chose eight lesser-known book cover designs that are exceptional. [Photo: courtesy Jesse Reed] 1. PRESENT PAST, PAST PRESENT, 1971 “This is a stop-me-in-my-tracks book cover,” says ...

As an undergraduate majoring in graphic design, she was initially unsure what kind of work she’d pursue after graduation—until she found some of Peter Mendelsund’s book cover designs online.

Back Bay Books. The patient zero of flat women might be Bernadette, the heroine and cover star of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple, from 2012. On that cover, a woman’s face floats ...

Here are some of the best book covers of 2023 that you did not see—with insight directly from the designers who created them. The version that ended up being scrapped is on left, the final ...

A number of readers are calling out Tor Books over the cover art of Gothikana by RuNyx, published by Tor's romance imprint Bramble on January 23, which incorporates AI-generated assets in its design.

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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. You might not have heard of book cover design's "7 second ...

She Designs the Book Covers You Judge. For years, Na Kim has made great books stand out. ... The first image she proposed, a red stiletto with a nail in place of a heel, ...

I’ve been a book designer since the 1990s, working with some of Australia’s and the United Kingdom’s leading publishers. These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing.