Go ahead, judge a book by its cover. We asked book cover designers to pick the best book covers of 2025 and tell us what makes them so great. Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature.

If you’re choosing to design your own cover to be budget-conscious, or if you want the hands-on experience of making each part of your book, you can use graphic design software to create book ...

who is the closest thing there is to a rock star in the rarefied world of high-end graphic design. Regarded as the world's foremost book jacket designer, Chip Kidd's work covers a wide array of ...

“Graphic designers … all recognize her work and ... Do you have any favorite book covers? I love the cover design and typesetting for poet and essayist Mary Ruefle’s books, which are all ...

An exhibition celebrating a century of Vietnam’s revolutionary press opened Friday in Hanoi, spotlighting the art of cover ...

By Penelope Green Carin Goldberg, a celebrated graphic designer who brought an inventive postmodern sensibility to book and album covers, died on Jan. 19 at her home in Stanfordville, N.Y., in ...

Carin Goldberg, a graphic designer whose pathbreaking work included covers for Madonna’s first album and thousands of books, including a series of Kurt Vonnegut paperbacks that reinvigorated the ...

Explicit novel Icebreaker is under fire for its ‘misleading’ cover. A book designer explains — and reveals how covers work There are lots of choices an illustrator makes in representing a ...

“Two women are at the center of the cover. The art instantly drew me in with its soft, warm tones contrasted by the bold, heavy font playfully composed over the cover. The two women, their black ...