Book design

Where to start with your first book cover design?

If you’re looking for escapism, 2023’s book cover design trends seem determined to banish the darkness. This year feels less about the words and more about the feeling: it seems like it’s time to forget guidelines around hierarchy and decorum and just let rip. Check out the 2023 book cover design trends.

A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers - Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new pieces, from Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey'. Ranging over myth, horror, love, nature, modern life, a diabolical painting, a cow…

Another month of books, another month of book covers. In July, many of those book covers are being Instagrammed next to a beach towel, or perhaps on a dock, or even a picnic bench. For this and oth…

We leaf through some of the most eye-catching book covers around.

American classics book series design. «The Catcher in the Rye» by J. D. Salinger, «To Kill A Mockingbird» by Harper Lee and «The Great Gatsby» by F. Scott Fitzgerald.The partly repeating pattern symbolizes a theme or an element from each book where one …

We’re elated by the design that has been dancing across bookshelves of late. Here are 30 of our favorite covers of 2021.

The Five Things Book is a design-led, typographic book; revealing over 100 people's five favourite things; along with the stories behind why they love each thing. Created by Belfast-based graphic d...

Take a look at July’s finest winning designs, find some inspiration and vote for your favorite.

This exciting new collection celebrates the Spanish short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable work being written today. Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends hidden gems and old favourites, surprising new voices and giants of Spain's literary culture, from Emilia Pardo Bazán and Leopoldo Alas, through Mercè Rodoreda and Manuel Rivas, to Javier Marías. Brimming with romance, horror, history, farce…