Designing a great cover for a famous novel can be a daunting enough task, but Canadian illustrator Ray Fenwick had to literally do one better. As part of a series in which Houghton Mifflin republished ...

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 ...

A Facebook cover photo is an important aspect of your personal or business profile on the platform. It is the first thing people see when they visit your profile, and a well-designed cover photo can ...

If you've been to an American bookstore in the past decade, the odds are good that a cover designed by Peter Mendelsund has caught your eye. Despite scant formal training, he has managed to create ...

“This cover feels simultaneously classic and entirely new. It’s slightly reminiscent of 1970s science fiction covers (albeit much more restrained), and yet I’ve never seen anything quite like it. That ...

Paramita Brahmachari says she stumbled upon book design serendipitously. The winner of the eighth edition of the Oxford Bookstore Cover Prize 2023 was scrambling to submit her doctoral dissertation in ...

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 ...

Aimed at aspiring designers and illustrators with less than a year’s industry experience, the brief pays homage to the publisher’s founding design principles To celebrate 90 years of Penguin, the ...

What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has the power to ...