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Book Cover Design

IMAGES: What Happens If You Flip The Gender Of Book Covers?

Posted 05.09.2013 | Books

Yesterday, author Maureen Johnson had a great idea. She tweeted "I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, "Please put a non-girly cover...

Under The Covers: 'The End Of The World In Breslau'

Posted 05.01.2013 | Books

In our ongoing series Under the Covers, we talk to the designers behind some of the most striking book covers about their inspirations and the stories...

Under The Covers: 'Love Water Memory'

Posted 04.01.2013 | Books

Love Water Memory ($26, Gallery Books) is a moving read, reflected beautifully in Laywan Kwan's cover design. As part of our series Under The Covers, ...

PHOTOS: New 'Wizard Of Oz' Edition Offers Fresh Take On Classic

Posted 03.20.2013 | Books

We recently interview Michael Sieben about his cover art and illustrations for Harper Design's new edition of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of ...

Under The Covers: 'Pieces Of Light'

Posted 03.15.2013 | Books

We interviewed Pete Dyer about his cover art design for Charles Fernyhough's book Pieces of Light for our ongoing series Under the Covers. : In...

Under The Covers: 'Little Known Facts'

Posted 03.06.2013 | Books

As part of Under the Covers, our occasional series on book cover design (formerly known as Rejected Covers), we talked via email to Natalie Slocum, co...

PHOTOS: These Truman Capote Reissues Are Awesome

Posted 02.11.2013 | Books

Random House's Modern Library came out with a new series reissues for some of Truman Capote's classic works. We talked to the designer, Eric White, to...

PHOTOS: 18 Weirdest Sex Book Covers

Rebecca Joines Schinsky | Posted 04.09.2013 | Books
Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Because the way to feel less disgusting after a fall into this kind of internet rabbit hole is to share your findings with others. Here we go!

The Book Trend That NEEDS To Stop

Zoƫ Triska | Posted 04.01.2013 | Books
Zoƫ Triska

I think that while the cliche "Don't judge a book by its cover" is well-intentioned and may certainly be true when referring to people, it is bullsh*t when referring to actual books.

PHOTOS: Penguin Civic Classic Book Covers, Inspiration Behind Design

Posted 01.23.2013 | Books

We recently interviewed the Penguin Civics Classics book cover series designer Gregg Kulick about his design choices and inspiration. In your own ...

PHOTOS: Penguin's Beautiful Drop Cap Classics

Posted 12.18.2012 | Books

Paul Buckley is the VP Executive Creative Director and designed Penguin's Drop Cap Classics series with Jessica Hische In your own words, what is t...

Rejected Covers: Susan Zucker Discusses 'American Dervish'

Posted 10.04.2012 | Books

Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...

PHOTOS: Best Book Covers Of 2011

Posted 10.03.2012 | Books

The Best Book Designs of 2011 have been named by 'Design Observer', one of the leading websites for design criticism and intelligent thinking around t...

Rejected Covers: Jarrod Taylor Discusses "Yok" By Tim Davys

Posted 08.02.2012 | Books

Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...

PHOTOS: I Design A Cover For Every Book I Read

Jenny Volvovski | Posted 09.22.2012 | Books
Jenny Volvovski

I started this project because when I am 90 (if I live that long), I want to have a library in my house (if there are still books) where every book jacket is designed by me. That is my long-term plan.

Rejected Covers: 'The McSweeney's Book of Politics & Musicals'

Posted 07.16.2012 | Books

Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...

Rejected Covers: "Gold" By Chris Cleave

Posted 07.06.2012 | Books

Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...

PHOTOS: Amazing Cover Designs At Madrid's Book Fair

Posted 06.08.2012 | Books

To celebrate the launch of El Huffington Post, our expansion into Spain (”Felicidades herman@s!), we dropped in on the Feria del Libro, an annual pub...

Rejected Covers: See How 'They Eat Puppies, Don't They?' Might Have Looked

Posted 05.04.2012 | Books

Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...

Rejected Covers: How 'The Wizard Of Oz' Might Have Looked

Posted 04.24.2012 | Books

This is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and inspiratio...

Rejected Covers: See How 'Second Person Singular' Might Have Looked

Posted 04.18.2012 | Books

This is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and inspiratio...

WATCH: Chip Kidd Reveals The Secret Of Great Book Covers

Posted 04.05.2012 | Books

Chip Kidd is probably the world's most famous book designer. His work with Knopf Doubleday includes such classic covers as "Jurassic Park", "1Q84" and...

Rejected Covers: See How 'The Mirage' Might Have Looked

Posted 03.20.2012 | Books

This is part of a new series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and inspirations be...

Designing Pulp Fiction

Todd Gallopo | Posted 03.29.2012 | Books
Todd Gallopo

When we began to discuss the book cover for our latest Igniter release, Satan Is Real, we all agreed there's no need to design a cover from scratch when the perfect cover image was already created 50 years ago. To reinterpret this one would be a sin (yeah, I said it).

Madeleine Crum

Does Beautiful Design Turn Novels Into Accessories?

HuffingtonPost.com | Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.09.2011 | Books

Retailer Anthropologie has a myriad of holiday gift suggestions on their website: "brrrilliant" polka-dot gloves, misshapen mugs made of blown glass a...