Below, Reed chose eight lesser-known book cover designs that are exceptional. [Photo: courtesy Jesse Reed] 1. PRESENT PAST, PAST PRESENT, 1971 “This is a stop-me-in-my-tracks book cover,” says ...

The abstract cover art for the Camus Collection was created by the cover designer Helen Yentus back in 1989, but it's still used by Vintage today. Designers have been giving it a lot of love over ...

“Going for the big literary book look is the biggest thing in cover design right now,” she says. “Big, white, usually centered text, over probably a very abstracted, colorful background ...

Designer Elisha Zepeda has become a TikTok star for sharing his book cover design process. ... or culture represented in the book, it’s abstract colors that resemble the shape of a woman.

People love a good design trend story (guilty!). When it comes to book covers, it’s a delight to read about Frappucino unicorns, stacked silhouettes, and overgrown botanical borders.The only ...

Hardcover Huang, the designer, went to Swarthmore with the author, and their conversations resulted in an abstract design that hinted at redacted letters and bureaucratic anonymity.

130 years after ‘The Yellow Book’ changed book cover design, one of the most notable book covers to grab the attention of readers was for Rebecca F. Kuang’s bestseller, ‘Yellowface’.

I was briefly an art director at Evergreen too. I did not meet Kuhlman at the time, but I was very inspired by his improvisational abstract book covers designed for Evergreen‘s publisher, Grove ...