Matt Dorfman has been an art director at the Book Review since 2015. Dec. 13, 2024 If most book cover designs are conceived as quick-to-metabolize marketing tools, a great one can make the reader ...

Paperback Designed by Alex Merto, Picador’s art director, the new cover presents Justin Metz’s overhead illustration of a forest from the perspective of a flying drone. Unlike the hardcover ...

Local bookstores will have a larger selection of great covers, and you can also find gems at used booksellers, my personal choice for book consumption. When you begin to judge a book by its cover, you ...

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the ...

An AI-assisted book cover led to the end of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off cover contest, as science fiction and fantasy authors are finding new strategies for dealing with AI art and writing.

PW spoke with art and editorial pros about new trends on and under the covers. Retro ranchers Until recently, the archetypal western romance cover featured a photo of a solo, brooding stud in a 10 ...

In that post on Talking Covers, Sean Manning’s terrific (and sadly defunct) book-design blog, you can see the progression of Louie’s designs for Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral,” one of the ...