Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them. Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the ...

If you've been to an American bookstore in the past decade, the odds are good that a cover designed by Peter Mendelsund has caught your eye. Despite scant formal training, he has managed to create ...

One of my favourite book covers of this year doesn’t make my top ten, but I think it’s a great example of what can be achieved with the most fundamental elements of book cover construction – type and ...

In 2022, Elisha Zepeda had given up on becoming a designer and was working as a barista at an Oregon bookstore. Today, he’s a salaried book cover designer at Penguin Random House and an in-demand ...

While I'm typically not an advocate for judging a book by its cover, this stunning design for Haruki Murakami's 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' has won me over without ever turning a page. Praised by ...

Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent a book’s premise or main character without getting so specific that readers are left with little to imagine. A few years ago, ...