Book design inspiration

Where to start with your first book cover design?

If you’re looking for escapism, 2023’s book cover design trends seem determined to banish the darkness. This year feels less about the words and more about the feeling: it seems like it’s time to forget guidelines around hierarchy and decorum and just let rip. Check out the 2023 book cover design trends.

Scientific advice on how to best place visual objects together.

Rives is a paper company with products that are perfect for projects ranging from lithography, intaglio, screen printing, relief printing, linocut, collotype, and drawing. New Zealand-based Fuman Studio was tasked with the job of designing the promotional piece for the company titled 'Touchy Feely' due to its vast range of textures. Instead of sticking to the mundane, they rethought the norm by creating a piece to be cherished as much as art instead of being viewed and tossed

We leaf through some of the most eye-catching book covers around.

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Another month of books, another month of book covers. In July, many of those book covers are being Instagrammed next to a beach towel, or perhaps on a dock, or even a picnic bench. For this and oth…

A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers - Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new pieces, from Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey'. Ranging over myth, horror, love, nature, modern life, a diabolical painting, a cow…

We’re elated by the design that has been dancing across bookshelves of late. Here are 30 of our favorite covers of 2021.

American classics book series design. «The Catcher in the Rye» by J. D. Salinger, «To Kill A Mockingbird» by Harper Lee and «The Great Gatsby» by F. Scott Fitzgerald.The partly repeating pattern symbolizes a theme or an element from each book where one …

MEMORIES by Millie is a photo memory book service. I wanted the brand to feel nostalgic & almost hazy. For that personal touch, I included a script font, keeping everything else simple, letting the photography be the focus.

To cap this eventful year, we've put together a list of the best book covers of 2020. There's something for everyone, from fiction to non-fiction!

As is now Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year–as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 54 designers to share th…

Take a look at July’s finest winning designs, find some inspiration and vote for your favorite.

This list of the best book covers 2017 is a collection of my personal favorites that have caught my eye and sparked my imagination in the past year!

Looking for some good holiday reads? Here’s a quick overview of some of the best design books released so far this year, from typography to illustration to logo design.

This set of books will provide a useful set of advices a designer should know: design, business, how to handle clients, pricing and more. Here they are.