Suzanne Dean’s illustration is unmatched.While I'm typically not an advocate for judging a book by its cover, this stunning design for Haruki Murakami's 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' has won me ...

Anger by Barbara H Rosenwein, Yale University Press. Design: Alex Kirby Appropriately enough, Alex Kirby’s cover design for Anger by Barbara H Rosenwein looks like it required some pent-up aggression ...

One of Leard’s guests, designer Mike Dempsey, is no stranger to book design nor to offering up an opinion on current and past covers (watch out, ...

Even for book readers who would not venture so much as a sketch, this 17-page download is full of fun covers in every genre, from Penguin Classic to romance, nice tries to failures.

7. I LIKE COVERS THAT DON'T LOOK LIKE BOOK COVERS. My pie-in-the-sky cover would be one without type—just an image-based cover, no title, no author. I think that would be effective branding. 8.

People love a good design trend story (guilty!). When it comes to book covers, it’s a delight to read about Frappucino unicorns, stacked silhouettes, and overgrown botanical borders. The only ...