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Dec 12, 2023 · Explore 10 types of book covers: Typographic, Minimalist, Retro, and more to find the ideal design for your book in our detailed guide.
- Rachel Willey. Before moving to New York City for college, Willey worked in bookstores around her native Southern California for almost seven years. There, she fed her love of novels and nonfiction and developed a new interest in their covers.
- Rodrigo Corral. Advertisement. New York-based Corral has designed a staggering number of the most iconic covers to grace bookshelves over the past 10 years: Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot (2011), Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), and Jay-Z’s Decoded (2010), to name just a few.
- Stefan Sagmeister. Sagmeister approaches book design like he does all of his projects: irreverently. He’s fashioned tomes that readers can drive like remote control cars or even eat off of (thanks to a plastic cover that doubles as a dinner plate).
- Janet Hansen. Hansen’s jacket designs are both economical and deeply affecting—like a great poem. It’s no wonder, then, that she’s concocted some of her most spellbinding covers for books of poetry.
- Front Cover: The Moneymaker
- Spine: I Bet You Look Good on The Bookshelf
- Back Cover: The (Not-So) Boring Bits
- Flaps: The Hardback's Special Feature
Let's be honest; we all judge books by their covers, and for a good reason! The front cover should be designed to reflect its genre and hint at what it's actually about. It's the first thing a reader will see, making it your number one marketing tool. The crucial elements of a front cover are the title and the author's name, but those alone would h...
The spine is the center of the book's cover, where all pages are bound. It holds your book together and, if done well, will make your book stand out on the bookshelf. The essentials for a book's spine are the book's title and the author's name — these should be in the same font as the main text on the front cover. In the example below from Patrick ...
Once a front cover has caught the reader’s attention, it's up to the back cover to convince them to actually buy and read your book. To anyone sighing because "no one ever looks at the back cover," we ask: how many times have you bought a book without reading its description?
Your book's cover will look a little different if you're publishing a hardback. Hardbacks usually have dust jackets — a removable cover printed on thick, heavyweight paper. Some features usually found on the back cover may be relocated to the dust jacket's back panels (or flaps). There aren't really any hard and fast rules — the author's photo and ...
Oct 3, 2018 · Oct 3, 2018. Knowing and understanding the constituent parts of a book cover will help you make the best marketing decisions when you design or commission your own. Despite the popular saying, the cover of a book is what readers will use to judge the contents of your book.
Aug 13, 2018 · In this post, we’ll be dipping into the business end of book cover design, looking at the three basic categories of cover design, what types of books they’re good for, and how much they cost. Type 1: Stock Image Manipulation
Sep 7, 2023 · Book cover design is part art and part science, a chance for creative expression that still needs to fit into certain parameters to be successful. In this article and accompanying infographic, we’ll cover the important things to consider when designing a book cover (or working with a cover designer).
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Get inspired by some of the best book cover art created by the world's finest freelance book designers. Includes examples from across all genres.
