What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has the power to ...

Editor and writer Mark Sinclair picks his favourite book cover designs of this year, plus opens with a few reflections on industry trends that have emerged in 2022 Last year I began CR’s round-up of ...

In this guide, typographer, book designer and manga artist Rittsu Kogarasuashi, shares invaluable lessons from her career ...

The Book Review’s art director on the edgiest, catchiest, most creative book jackets of the year. Credit... Supported by By Matt Dorfman Recently, a friend who works outside of publishing described ...

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the volumes ...

This project was to re-design a classic novel. The inspiration behind the Animal Farm cover derived from the controversial topics brought up throughout the book. The collage on the cover is composed ...

During the eight months since the UK declared the first of its nationwide lockdowns, writers have still written, publishers have still published and book designers have continued to produce an ...

Despite a steady rise in the popularity of e-books and a surge in ownership of electronic readers and tablets, real dead-tree paper books are not about the exit the scene any time soon. And while most ...

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 ...