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Best Book Covers of 2020 so far| Delicious book cover designs of 2020 to feast on. There's David Mann, Haya Miceli and Karan Singh
Well, friends, it’s been another tough year. But as we wind down 2021, it is useful to remember the good parts, the pleasures small and large that got us through. And yes, a beautifully desig…
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.
Illustrator based in South Wales. Works in both traditional and digital mediums. Represented by The Bright Agency.
A collection of what we believe are 50 of best book covers you can find, and get enchanted along with us by the high level of these artworks!
Stian Hole (cover art), Nattevakt
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A collection of what we believe are 50 of best book covers you can find, and get enchanted along with us by the high level of these artworks!
Based on reviewing 1000+ covers and inputs from 12 authors, our list represents the best mystery and thriller book covers of 2017.
For what is now the seventh time in a row, 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 31 design…
You can judge a book by its cover, it just depends on the talents of the artist and their understanding of the book they are illustrating. Tom Adams (March 29, 1926 – December 9, 2019) was such an artist. His covers to novels by Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, John Fowles, Kingsley Amis, among others added … Continue reading "Murder by the Book: Tom Adams’ Brilliant Agatha Christie Covers"
We Got You Covered Book Design specializes in book covers and interior design, bringing quality products to authors at affordable prices. Offering unique work in all genres as well as additional services such as branding and website design, We Got You Covered aims to make the publishing process easy by being a one-stop shop for…
Sue Gent's latest decorative book cover for Joanne Harris is revealed
It may actually be mandatory at this point to begin any kind of 2020 roundup with an acknowledgement of how shit the year was, and how impossible it was to focus on the good parts, and how anything…
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!
Most reprints of classic books are dominated by large companies that produce low-quality paperbacks with bland covers, as David Mautz discovered when he
When a body washes up on the shores of a village in the Aran Islands, it brings mystery with it… We’re thrilled to share the cover for Sarah Tolmie’s The Fourth Island, a moving and unforgettable story of life and death arriving October 20th from Tor.com Publishing. Huddled in the sea off the coast of […]
This year, at Lit Hub, we spent a lot of time thinking about book cover design. Oliver Munday wrote about designing the cover for Fleur Jaeggy’s newly reissued masterpiece Sweet Days of Disci…
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For what is now the seventh time in a row, 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 31 design…
Time for some pure escapism.
A collection of what we believe are 50 of best book covers you can find, and get enchanted along with us by the high level of these artworks!
After Hungarian designer & illustrator Levente Szabo graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2006, he set up shop as a freelance designer. He soon grew weary with indecisive clients and shifted his focus toward illustration and the concepting of storyboard artwork for the movie and advertising industries in Budapest. It is easy to see how all of this past training and diligent hard work has informed so much of his current book and poster work. Last year, Szabo's life took a big turn when he moved to Brussels with his girlfriend so she could begin a Master's degree program at the Royal Conservatory. This new move presented Szabo with some time to pursue a life-long dream of designing book covers for some of his favorite novels. He soon began a self-directed assignment he calls The Great Book Cover Project, where he can display his strong design and illustrations skills in addition to his clever conceptual work. His first cover project of Kafka works was created in Photoshop and included hand lettering. The last image above illustrates some of his initial concepts for each book. Szabo considers Arthur Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey to be one of the best sci-fi novels ever written and his design represents a very elegant solution. He chose to use the iconic monolith on both the dust jacket and the hard cover in two starkly contrasting designs, and managed to bridge the time frame between the two. The text block on the back cover fittingly mimics the monolith structure. Stephen King's Misery was part of Szabo's Great Book Cover Project #4. He chose to design two different versions and encourages others to weigh in with their preferences on his Behance site. Szabo states "the text in the red version is an actual quotation of the novel Paul is writing within the novel, I only changed it to place the words 'Stephen' and 'King" in it." Seen above are two different versions of Lord of the Flies. Below are examples of Lolita, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and The Old Man and the Sea. Cover designs for Brave New World and I, Robot. Below are many examples of of his initial working concepts for these and other covers. Levente Szabo has all the markings of a great book cover designer; a rare combination of diversified talents including conceptual design, illustration and typography. I hope his dream of producing The Great Book Cover Project results in a great dream career of designing books. He certainly deserves this. Find much more of his work here and here.
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Obviously I disagree. Here are some clever cover designs that will make you do a double take. Share this post
Between 1953 and 1960, before he was a household name as the master of the cutely macabre, Edward Gorey worked as a book designer and illustrator for Doubleday Anchor. During his tenure, he designe…
It's never too early to appreciate the year in books. Here's a look at the best book covers of 2020.
This has not been an easy start to summer; the record-destroying heat and storms seemingly everywhere are pressing reminders of our planet’s future, and it’s difficult to get yourself in the beach …
