01. Understand the story first. A book cover should encapsulate the essence of the story. Before diving into the design, read the book or discuss its themes with the author.

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 ...

When I show friends the cover of my recent book, Speaking From the Heart: Gender and the Social Meaning of Emotion, I get one of two responses. The first is an enthusiastic “Cool! Did you get to ...

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 ...

It looks like one of those book-to-film covers that everyone wants to avoid but, contrary to popular belief, this cover of Lolita isn’t a still from Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 movie; neither the ...

The styling Oprah’s 111th book club pick features type in a shade of yellow that you’ll also see on the cover of the forthcoming “Happiness & Love,” among others. (A similar chartreuse is ...