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Designer Elisha Zepeda has become a TikTok star for sharing his book cover design process. Are publishers paying attention?
A book designer explains — and reveals how covers work There are lots of choices an illustrator makes in representing a book’s characters on its cover, including outfits and body size.
You know the work. But you might not know who made it. From the 1950s to the 1990s, book designer Janet Halverson created covers for an array of authors and titles: Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why ...
Carin Goldberg, a graphic designer whose pathbreaking work included covers for Madonna’s first album and thousands of books, including a series of Kurt Vonnegut paperbacks that reinvigorated the ...
Carin Goldberg, a celebrated graphic designer who brought an inventive postmodern sensibility to book and album covers, died on Jan. 19 at her home in Stanfordville, N.Y., in Dutchess County.
Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them.
The Academy of British Cover Design reveals its winners of the year, as well as the best design from the last decade, chosen to celebrate the “irreverent” and “inclusive” awards’ 10th anniversary.
Melania Trump’s newly-unveiled book cover design raises eyebrows The memoir, set to be released on October 1, is described by her office as ‘a powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has ...
With series design, each book cover must stand out but also somehow blend in. Cover designer Jack Smyth’s latest series design is for a remarkable writer, Italo Calvino, and spans a remarkable number ...
Here are some of the best book covers of 2023 that you did not see—with insight directly from the designers who created them.
Jenny Grigg is the talented book designer behind The Luminaries and Gerald Murnane’s last book. We asked her to explain how covers communicate – and how they can fall short.