A book cover should encapsulate the essence ... For manga-inspired designs, I combine character illustrations with textured ...

Emma Ewbank’s design and illustration work somehow manage to feel both deliberate ... The Status Game by Will Storr; Design: Steve Leard; Publisher: William Collins Some book covers make you look, and ...

The Weeds by Katy Simpson Smith (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Designer: Grace Han; Art Director: Na Kim Single-colour book covers are rare and I’ve not come across one that takes the blue palette of ...

Romance novels thrive on familiarity and the promise of a happily ever after (or a happy for now), and their covers likewise ...

Go ahead, judge a book by its cover. We asked book cover designers to pick the best book covers of 2025 and tell us what makes them so great. Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature.

In the red-hot world of romance novels, the startup “romantic fiction company” is looking to stand out with its uniform, color-blocked, Easter egg–heavy cover design.

From a book designer who works on a hundred books a year, to a manga artist focused on cover art and illustrations, and an artisan who inherited the techniques of watoji, a traditional binding ...

My journey into book design began at home ... I think of ways to use the image in contemporary ways. If it’s an illustration-led cover, I need to sketch – either on paper or digitally.

Fully Booked asked its artist friends — from graphic artists to watercolorists to photographers — what the best book covers are for them so that readers may be able to learn from them how to judge a ...