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“The Dimensions of a Cave,” by Greg Jackson Designed by Jamie Keenan. This book has two back covers and the spine is inside out. The design (used solely on the British edition) feels like a ...

Designer Matt Stevens’ new book, “Good Movies as Old Books: Films Reimagined as Vintage Book Covers,” features vintage-looking covers for imaginary book versions of his favorite films ...

THE RABBIT HUTCH. By Tess Gunty (Knopf). What it’s about The lives of various tenants in an Indiana apartment complex over the course of one week in July.It begins with 18-year-old Blandine, who ...

Indeed, many of the best book covers rival the best print ads when it comes to design ingenuity. We may only be a couple of months into 2025, but we've already seen some stunning book covers.

Most videos on book cover designer Elisha Zepeda’s TikTok account have a similar format: he gets an assignment from a publisher, crafts several options, gets feedback, makes some tweaks, and ...

Jenny Grigg is the talented book designer behind The Luminaries and Gerald Murnane’s last book. We asked her to explain how covers communicate – and how they can fall short.

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 ...