We’re elated by the design that has been dancing across bookshelves of late. Here are 30 of our favorite covers of 2021.
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.
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…
We’re elated by the design that has been dancing across bookshelves of late. Here are 30 of our favorite covers of 2021.
Despite the not-so-great start to the year, it did bring with it a silver lining—more time to read books! When choosing one off the shelf (or on your Kindle), the cover is often one of the biggest deciding factors.
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…
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The truth of the matter is, people do judge a book by its cover. So here are some outstanding examples for you to judge. Muzli is a new-tab Chrome extension that instantly delivers relevant design…
This year, we're getting some beautiful fantasy book covers, from dragons to talons to monsters. Here are twenty-six of our favorites.
You might’ve heard the phrase, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” In reality, we all do it. If we have a hankering to find a new book, we might spend
Today in “2016 was garbage but at least we had good ____,” we bring you: book covers. Because it’s true: this year, we had a healthy quantity of beautiful, inventive, arresting, u…
Based on reviewing 1000+ covers and inputs from 12 authors, our list represents the best mystery and thriller book covers of 2017.
Based on reviewing 1000+ covers and inputs from 12 authors, our list represents the best mystery and thriller book covers of 2017.
Editor and writer Mark Sinclair picks his favourite book cover designs of this year
I'm forever collecting my favorite book designs, and this list of best book covers 2018 is a selection of those that caught my eye throughout the year.
It’s October, which means everything is now officially just a little bit spookier—and I’m not only talking about your Twitter handles. To celebrate the season, please enjoy this collect…
There are multiple answers to this question. But most of the answers might fall under the criteria of: Well, all the above factors are a big yes or a partial ‘not necessary’, a good design is…
Discover over 40 book cover ideas and learn how to design your own perfect book cover today.
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.
Take a look at July’s finest winning designs, find some inspiration and vote for your favorite.
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!
I have an intense book addiction. For a while, I used paper boxes full of books as a bed frame. You know your habit is serious when you start making furniture out of books. Book nerds like me will make any excuse to score another title for their…
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 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!
March is here! Every sane person's least favorite months are over! Plus, a stupid number of great new books
Looking for a book that will leave you feeling like you've just received a warm hug? Here are the cozy fantasy books to add to your list:
Editor and writer Mark Sinclair picks his favourite book cover designs of this year
This year, we're getting some beautiful fantasy book covers, from dragons to talons to monsters. Here are twenty-six of our favorites.
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
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…
It's a whole new season of fresh reads!
We leaf through some of the most eye-catching book covers around.
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!
Award-winning Rachel Hartman's newest YA is a tour de force and an exquisite fantasy for the #metoo movement. "Tess of the Road is astonishing and perfect. It's the most compassionate book I've read since George Eliot's Middlemarch." --NPR In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess is none of these things. Tess is. . . different. She speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. Then Tess goes too far. What she's done is so disgraceful, she can't even allow herself to think of it. Unfortunately, the past cannot be ignored. So Tess's family decide the only path for her is a nunnery. But on the day she is to join the nuns, Tess chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her hair, pulls on her boots, and sets out on a journey. She's not running away, she's running towards something. What that something is, she doesn't know. Tess just knows that the open road is a map to somewhere else--a life where she might belong. Returning to the spellbinding world of the Southlands she created in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling novel Seraphina, Rachel Hartman explores self-reliance and redemption in this wholly original fantasy. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * BOSTON GLOBE * The Chicago Public Library * KIRKUS REVIEWS Four starred reviews "The world building is gorgeous, the creatures are vivid and Hartman is a masterful storyteller. Pick up this novel, and savor every page." --Paste Magazine
A good book cover needs to be both timeless and trendy. Here are 8 ingenious book cover design trends we see dominating in stores and online in 2018.
Discover over 40 book cover ideas and learn how to design your own perfect book cover today.
