Expert tips from a manga artist and typography expert, for stunning book covers of any genre.

If you’re an author wondering how to create the ideal book cover for your work, deciding between AI-generated designs and professional design services can feel challenging. The book cover is a key ...

Finding the right cover and jacket design for a book can be one of the most exciting parts of the publishing process—and one of the most challenging. Indie authors will want to give some serious ...

With ‘bookstagramming’ becoming a force in marketing, are designers making covers more colourful, bolder and cleaner, to stand out on our screens? To paraphrase John Waters: “We need to make books ...

The best or worst years of an artist’s career can be defined by a single square image. Album cover art is often the first step toward that album’s reception — good or bad — and we often associate the ...

The best design podcast around—and one of the best podcasts, period—is Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible. On it he covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history of ...

The often subversive story of book cover design is retold in a new title from Ten Speed Press, which celebrates and explores the many methods publishers have used to grab readers’ attention The book, ...

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