Matt Dorfman has been an art director at the Book Review since 2015. Dec. 13, 2024 If most book cover designs are conceived as quick-to-metabolize marketing tools, a great one can make the reader ...

Reader’s Digest spoke with three accomplished book cover designers and artists who shared the best book covers of 2025. Ahead, you’ll find thoughtful, detailed analysis by Hanna Barczyk, Lisa ...

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 ...

Indeed, many of the best book covers rival the best print ads when it comes to design ingenuity. We may only be one month into 2025, but we've already seen some stunning book covers.

Indeed, many of the best book covers rival the best print ads when it comes to design ingenuity. ... The cover was designed by Harper Books' VP art director Robin Bilardello. Credit: Penguin.

We all know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But it’s hard not to be influenced by that first impression. Publishers and designers know this and work hard to catch your eye — and get ...

Fully Booked asked its artist friends — from graphic artists to watercolorists to photographers — what the best book covers are for them so that readers may be able to learn from them how to ...

The best book cover designs of 2022 revealed. 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” ...

Creating cover art that conveys the passage of time is not easy. This box set, containing two interlinked novels, lays out its story beats like a film’s cold open.