Out of the Shadows: The Psychology of Gay Men’s Lives by Walt Odets, Penguin. Design: Tom Etherington The picture placement and framing of the evocative Wolfgang Tillmans photograph used on the cover ...

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.

Cover to Cover, a new book from Penguin Classics, is the closest I can get to looking at pornography in the office. I’ve stared at it for hours, flipping back and forth between covers I&#8217… ...

Another was a stark white cover with white text, adorned only with, yes, a tasteful splatter of blood. When it came down to it, though, Mendelsund says there was only one parameter guiding the design.

Ahead of sharing my top ten book covers for 2023, I’d like to mention a new favourite bookshop. Beyond the imposing stone entrance to Topping & Company in Bath, books are – perhaps to no surprise – ...

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 ...

These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing. A cover designer’s role is to interpret a book visually, reflecting what the author and publisher have achieved in the text.

Chancing upon a new cover for a much-read book in a bookshop or a library will stop me in my tracks to at least browse for a few minutes, making fresh acquaintance with a familiar text.