People love a good design trend story (guilty!). When it comes to book covers, it’s a delight to read about Frappucino unicorns, stacked silhouettes, and overgrown botanical borders. The only ...

If most book cover designs are conceived as quick-to-metabolize marketing tools, a great one can make the reader do a double take in slow motion. A good first impression is, of course, the goal ...

Oftentimes, comic book covers depict a hero losing to whatever villain the issue features, but the hero doesn't actually lose in the issue. In this case, readers pick up the issue, and as it gets ...

This famous cover was designed by Paul Bacon, who was known as the master of "Big Book Look." He was rumored to have created as many as 11 different designs for Catch-22 before the blue-and-red ...

Alas, no. I'm sorry, America. As beautiful as our book covers are, some other countries are cranking out book covers even more eye-catching, affecting, and all-around gorgeous.

Color contrast makes a cover pop, but the highest-contrast combination—black and white—can be a turnoff for publishers, who worry that without color, the book won’t stand out.

Designed by Alex Merto The same designer produced both of these covers. Looking at them side by side, they demonstrate a stylistic pluralism that speaks to the attention paid to each book’s mission.