Designer Matt Stevens reimagines movies like ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Inception’ as covers in a book out this week from Chronicle ...

Go ahead, judge that book by its cover. Book cover designers picked the best book covers of 2025 and told us what makes them so great.

One of my favourite book covers of this year doesn’t make my top ten, but I think it’s a great example of what can be achieved with the most fundamental elements of book cover construction – type and ...

Cover of the book ‘Czerwony Monter: Mieczysław Berman – Grafik ... I also have a feeling that I’m running out of ideas, which does not make things easier. Let’s take a look at Marcin Wicha’s ...

He began putting his initial creations on social media, and they resonated. Having initially experimented with early 1900s ...

Earlier in the summer, the original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was sold for a record £1.5m. The book is more than 25 years old, but the price the watercolour ...

Editor and writer Mark Sinclair picks his favourite book cover designs of this year, plus opens with a few reflections on industry trends that have emerged in 2022 Last year I began CR’s round-up of ...

Book covers have always sold – or oversold ... although just as often they’ll pull ideas straight from the brief. They’ll send their drafts back to the publisher, who then prods and ...

Overloading the cover with too many ideas or too much visual noise can dilute the message. Keep it simple. The cover is not a summary of the book; it is an invitation. Blindly following trends and ...