If you've been to an American bookstore in the past decade, the odds are good that a cover designed by Peter Mendelsund has caught your eye. Despite scant formal training, he has managed to create ...
Finding the right cover and jacket design for a book can be one of the most exciting parts of the publishing process—and one of the most challenging. Indie authors will want to give some serious ...
Slate: Why Do So Many of This Year’s Book Covers Have the Same Design Style?
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, ...
Why Do So Many of This Year’s Book Covers Have the Same Design Style?
Forbes: 5 Guidelines Can Help Your Book Cover Design Pass The 7-Second Test
5 Guidelines Can Help Your Book Cover Design Pass The 7-Second Test
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 ...
Euronews: Judge a book by its cover: Inside the world of book design
Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them. Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the ...
Judge a book by its cover: Inside the world of book design
Fresh from designing the covers for a set of 32 titles by Italo Calvino, Smyth offers his insights into the unique challenges in designing for a series Designing a book cover is a singular endeavour ...