This climate creates a volatile set of conditions for cover design. A cover is likely a reader’s front door to a book. The art needs to entice, convey the subject—books on nature will probably ...

01. Understand the story first. A book cover should encapsulate the essence of the story. Before diving into the design, read ...

Most videos on book cover designer Elisha Zepeda’s TikTok account have a similar format: he gets an assignment from a publisher, crafts several options, gets feedback, makes some tweaks, and ...

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However, it’s important to be aware of AI’s limitations, such as potential weaknesses in typography and layout. In the evolving world of publishing, AI is now a valuable tool in book cover ...

A book is weighed against its confreres in the same genre and a designer begins conceptualising anywhere up to 15 different directions. This is how a bestselling cover ends up with hordes of copycats.

Readers with a keen eye for book cover design are likely to associate uniform jacket schemes primarily with boutique literary publishers—among them Archipelago Books, Fitzcarraldo Editions ...

The cover of “Fallen Stars” keeps the green scheme of the book’s original cover design, now with crested waves and a mermaid, who will be a central part of the romance plot, Erriu says.