Clint Eastwood's latest book cover has provoked mirth on Reddit, where someone noticed what happens when you don't consider ...

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.

Hiring a general graphic designer, a common choice for book covers, will cost between $100 and $400 at the entry level, McConnehey estimates, but costs grow alongside the skill of the designer: "A ...

Now that other venerable British publisher, Faber & Faber, has stepped up to the plate. Eighty Years of Book Cover Design seems very much a retort to Penguin, as if to say, 'Hey, we were putting ...

Next, Olsen advises checking out some online resources like The Book Cover Archive, The Casual Optimist, FaceOut Books, and Design Observer's 50 Books/50 Covers for more ideas.

Since the early 1990s, however, it is Alfred A. Knopf – under the discerning eye of art director Carol Devine Carson – that has set the standard for innovative book-cover design.

130 years after ‘The Yellow Book’ changed book cover design, one of the most notable book covers to grab the attention of readers was for Rebecca F. Kuang’s bestseller, ‘Yellowface’.

Go ahead, judge a book by its cover. We asked book cover designers to pick the best book covers of 2025 and tell us what makes them so great. Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature.

Chéri and the End of Chéri by Colette; Design: Sarahmay Wilkinson; Publisher: WW Norton Everything on this cover is hand-painted, and with the petals and rose heads flying around, it’s effectively an ...