Really loved this cover. the school-art-class feel of scratching off words in thick pastel, working through an adolescent tragedy. I think it has so much power because its so succinct in its depiction of violence and trauma. Its hard not to stare back at this cover, and its the subtle adjustment in the pupils that really drive this design home. The three Os used to convey the three different viewpoints is thrilling. One of the most playful covers Ive ever seen, so full of life and wit. Beautiful palette, bold design, iconic image. Beautiful type, color palette, the whole package! Love the romantic colors, smart type treatment, and grainy texture. Are you looking for book cover design inspiration for your upcoming self-published book? At first glance it feels serene, and then the sharp spikes and the air around the type vibrate with a palpable edge. I really admire the overall effect of this art and particularly love how wonderful and idiosyncratic the type is. I love how simple yet superbly effective the displacement/swap/tiling of the eyes is. It has such a sweeping feel that matches the novels epic tale. Amazing Photoshop and the atmosphere it creates. My eyes jump around in the best way. Great use of metallic effects; the iridescent colors, but most of all that dense, dark, black hole, just sucks you in. Great colors, simple text and use of texture. Love the shapes, the texture and the off-register colors. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare. Unwrap the jacket for a full shelf of spine design that delights in every genre! And then there were none by Agatha Christie. The Past is Rising by Kathryn Bywaters. Thoughtful, timely, stylish, duotone beauties. Every time I come across this cover, I have the urge to touch it, to see if the Cray-Pa art would smudge onto my fingertips . This achieves such a mood with such economy. Great colors and great illustration. The colors! So fun and approachable even with a limited palette. The ultimate eye candy! I love Toms use of shapes and color blocking here. You wouldnt expect skulls on a cover really.. except a Horror one.. but this is superb. The font, image and title all work perfectly together, and the black and pink on white really stands out on the shelf. Like all of Johns work: bold, timeless, and brilliant. Haha a little bit but mine would have a bit more texture probably! vintage yet modern. Well manipulated photos and fitting font choice. I am usually ambivalent about bright, happy covers and see them as an industry necessity, but this cover just makes me smile. Another great illustrated cover! Striking in its simplicity, brilliant in its execution. Lauren did such a great job with this cover. A book with 32 DIFFERENT COVERS. A perfect example of how an image can be paired with simple text. Feels really fresh. Feels so fresh. I dont know how Lauren came to be a designer, but she always seems to approach a book cover in a slightly unusual waynever reverting to a nice typeface on a nice picture. Its so fun to look at! I almost hold my breath when I look at this jacket. The simplicity of this cover is deceivingthe scale and tension of the entirely hand-drawn elements create a beautifully compelling representation of its subject. Its our firm belief that the most critical part of any book is its cover, upon which the books merits should solely be judged. Another simple font used. Great Photoshop work and good typography. Great manipulation of elements and pictures. The handwritten author name in purple seems like a small moment, until you realize the entire thing actually hinges on it. This looks like an exquisite ransom note. Glad you found the article useful and definitely keep coming back to it as you need! Full of suspense, but warm and eye-catching. Not your typical placement of elements too. Tamara Shopsin, LaserWriter II; cover design by Tamara Shopsin(MCD, October) The way that rounded font mirrors the smooth edges of the illustrative elements is particularly pleasing. A great example of how texture use spices up the cover without overloading it and making it too gritty. I love how at once fresh and classical this is; the unexpected POV angle, the beautiful type, and the splash of red in the a. All the elements come together like a Hitchcockian, paranoid fantasy. So original, love how they used the receipt here. That horrible condensed Garamond, everything just a tiny bit lo-res and all the elements looking like theyre stuck on with no thought. Topped with the books inquisitive title, the cover is irresistibly charming. In an age when big type dominates, I love seeing a design that begs you to look closer and examine it. Simple, clean, classic . Great manipulation. Awesome Photoshop skills manipulated visuals together so well. Good lord. Awesome way to create depth with the broken glass and title behind it. Such a unique and sharp cover. to make me feel like a hip, well-read lover of poetry. Another instantly iconic cover, The retro type and the cheeky illustration make this a conversation starter for sure. Every time I see this cover I want to pick it up. This is awesome! Simple but arresting. Another example of how contrasting fonts work even without many effects created on them. A good example of how design can drive the eye on a well-structured cover. Beautiful and intriguing. Contact Arianna Rebolini at arianna.rebolini@buzzfeed.com. 49. The color caught my eye right away; everything is so vivid that the cover almost vibrates. Another cover that is a perfect example of current trends in thriller covers. Creative! Wole Soyinka, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth; cover design by Linda Huang (Pantheon, September) Love the feel of it. Your email address will not be published. . Hope this gave you some insights into book cover design too and helped you learn more. Fantastic cover. Ornaments incorporated so well. Great effect of movement and action here. This cover is so creepy yet beautiful! Another Holmes cover and another beauty. I think its a sophisticated twist on the illustrated romance covers. I love the color scheme and even tho text is simple, it still works well. I love the illustration and the depth. Geometric shapes well done, even creates a 3D look. Love typography here. Na has given us a perfect jewel box to puzzle over, made tactile with touches of spot gloss. But you have never seen a cover like this before. Mesmerizing, with so many great little details. Theres a silent scream here you cant turn away from. Adrijus, youve written an excellent article. I spent a while staring at this cover and being impressed about the three eyes lining up perfectly. Well, friends, its been another tough year. The Sisters and Brothers by Patrick DeWitt. So many layers to get lost in, but what stands out is Graces type choice: the round characters match the five circular shapes. Rachels stands out to me because of the playfulness and surreal quality. Gorgeous, vibrant colors and simple text integrated into the artwork. Great cover. Typography is main effect and visual supports it well. Everything just works out very nicely here. Brilliant. Yang Kim knocked this one out of the park. Without question the best cover of the year. I know you posted this a long time ago, but just saw that you included my design for Aghorst Aoman. I love the confidence of this cover. A super commercial book cover, but that doesnt stop it looking great. )to see who that man is. I am always drawn right to this cover whenever I see it in a bookstore. Also comforting to see this particular image with the title. She is a power-clashing maximalist with an inordinate disdain for the color navy. Impossible. No need for more effects on them. 23. Theres a great tension here: flat vs. dimensional, muted vs. boldits all a touch awkward and, as a result, most intriguing. Damn. Great colors, great, dramatic sky and good use of one main element in design (boat). Atmospheric and very arts and craftsright up my street (yep, cover design is so subjective). The deft touch in the dance between type and image on this jacket pulls you in and along for the ride. Love how the layers bring focus to Pessoa. About as vertical as you can get and I love how the image sits somewhere between photographic and illustrative for that blockbuster movie poster feel. Amazing colors (evocative), authors name is big so its easy to read in the small thumbnail (if the author sells books on the name alone that matters). What a perfect combination of image and colors and font. Its a book lovers playground! Charlotte is a New England expat currently living in Los Angeles, CA with her cat, Joan Cusack. I also love how the choice of serif, with its bulbous terminals, complements the shape of the black blobs. The whole series, again, is worth looking at as its brilliantly designed. Fantastic. A modern update on the silhouette cliche. A welcome nod to classic fiction designs of the 1960s and 70s. . Davids design expertly bridges both. Simple, bold, and clever. Absolutely brilliant. The people in the Z letter (and water) look so cool. The way the elements are arranged is fun and playful, yet everything is clear and readable. What has this child seen?? The ornaments appear as if they were drawn by a feeble, bed-ridden hand, but Felix Koeberlin, the 10-year-old son of a type designer, provided the calligraphic inspiration. Gorgeous illustration, cleverly hidden child gives it that childish feeling and colors are stunning. I love the colors, illustration style, and gradient background. Great cover, great colors. Jaya Nicely designed the covers of Hysteria and A Certain Hunger. The way Sara introduced the element of surprise with the textured type and illustration makes it feel so fresh. 42. I dont even know what to say, everything about this is perfect. The power of the figure looking out at the world through that O is memoir perfection. Double Trio: Love a Baldessarian blob. When she's not writing about ad campaigns and colorways you can find her scouring estate sales or attempting to teach herself calligraphy. 53. Great picture too (thats where my love for skyscrapers show haha). Through the Eyes of Joanna by Edith Ivie. Love the movie poster feel. Between the blocky black type that interacts with the sweat, the orange gradient, and the small scientific element that punctuates the subtitle, the design decisions here are incredibly complex, but the result is effortless. I feel like this one is deceptively simple and the cut out section reveals an inner truth only found in the book itself. The Thought Cathedral by Nathan Williams. Right-on cover imagery for this memoir. Everything about this cover is brilliant, the pink, the creepily cropped photograph and the slight overlap of the white dots and the type. 14. . Interesting. Now Im looking for your next cover! Such simplicity, and yet so much emotion in the shape of that mouth full of type. Very current with design trends of 2018 and bold choice. Can you imagine receiving this in the mail? . The fonts! Awesome example of how rightly picked fonts tell the genre and look cool. And that weird letteringa script-stencil hybridshouldnt work, but of course, Thomas pulls it off and the result is this strange, poetic work of art. 61. So funny and clever. Love the idea and concept of it. This cover tickles every part of my brain, from the unique mark-making to the unusual palette. The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen cover design by Na Kim, Dead Souls by Sam Riviere cover design by Jamie Keenan, paper engineering and photography by Gina Rudd, O Beautiful by Jung Yun cover design by Young Jin Lim, Languages of Truth by Salman Rushdie- cover design by Jon Gray, Aquarium by Yaarza Shehori cover design by Thomas Colligan, How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue cover design by Jaya Miceli, Black Girl Call Home by Jasmine Mans cover design by Dominique Jones, photo by Micaiah Carter, White on White by Aysegl Savas cover art by Lauren Peters-Collaer, The Plague by Albert Camus cover design by Sunra Thompson, O by Steven Carroll cover design by Jon Gray, Id Like to Say Sorry, But Theres No One to Say Sorry to by Mikolaj Grynberg cover design by Arsh Raziuddin with Oliver Munday, A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris cover design by Gregg Kulick, Antonio by Beatriz Bracher cover design by Janet Hansen, Girlhood by Melissa Febos cover design by Katya Mezhibovskaya, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the Worlds Economy by Adam Tooze cover design by Jason Ramirez, Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad cover design by Peter Mendelsund, A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke cover design by John Gall, The End of Everything by Katie Mack cover design by Tom Etherington, Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner cover design by Na Kim, Rabbit Island by Elvira Navarro cover design by Gabriele Wilson, The Ghost Sequences by A.C. This was my favorite book I read this year and I also loved the cover. Fruit held up by the steady Y trunk? I have taken note of a few designs that I found might be useful for my manuscript. by Mira Sethi cover design by Janet Hansen, This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno cover design by Sara Wood and art by Howie Wonder, Nectarine by Chad Campbell cover design by Dave Drummond, Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin cover design by Kelly Blair, Nobody, Somebody, Anybody by Kelly McClorey cover design by Allison Saltzman, Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian cover design by Stephanie Ross, illustration by Misha Gurnanee Gudibanda, Outlawed by Anna North cover design by Rachel Willey, Mona by Pola Oloixarac cover design by Thomas Colligan, My Year Abroad by Rae Lee cover design by Grace Han, After the Sun by Jonas Eika cover design by Lauren Peters-Collaer, Field Study by Chetla Sebree cover design by June Park, Harrow by Joy Williams cover design by Kelly Blair, Mrs. March by Virginia Feito cover design by Jaya Miceli, The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman cover design by Tristan Offit, Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith cover design by Yang Kim, New Teeth by Simon Rich cover design by Lucy Kim, No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood cover design by Lauren Peters-Collaer, Milk Fed by Melissa Broder cover design by Jaya Miceli, The Atmospherians by Alex McElroy cover design by Laywan Kwan, LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin cover design by Tamara Shopsin, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka cover design by Linda Huang, With Teeth by Kristen Arnett cover design by Lauren Peters-Collae, Night Bitch by Rachel Yoder cover design by Emily Mahon. Would the art work without the title? I want to know her pre-press secrets! A gorgeous and super fresh take on a genre that we all know often leads to the overdone & everseen: photo of a guy + type. In a market that is saturated with illustrated covers, this illustrated cover feels totally fresh with its minimal color palette and fun interweaving of type and image. The big type, the peachy color theme, and the floating suit and hat make this cover instantly iconic. . The way the type seems to emerge and shine on its own immediately gives it dimension. You deserve it! This pop art collage style is definitely having a moment of popularity, and theres no shortage of excellent designs to choose from. One of the best visuals on a book cover Ive ever seen and its so simple yet so so powerful. I could spend forever looking at this cover. It can be hard to pull off inverted colors on covers but this one is done well. Gotta love the commitment to form and technology. Looks and feels like a classic. Again, quite minimalistic, not too much colors but it works really well. I cant stop looking at this. The dripping clouds are so intriguing. I am a sucker for all-type, cut paper, Jamie Keenan covers. For the sixth year in a row, I asked a few of my favorite professional book cover designers (34 of my favorites, in fact) to choose their favorite covers of the last twelve months. There is a common misconception that books are all about the words printed on their interior pages. Loved the title font treatment, the soft colors, and particularly enjoy how the subtitle looks like a stampsuch a perfect detail. Glad you love it and I hope we get to collaborate on a cover in future for sure. Now, Im hunting you down for my next cover! Awesome colors. Its a brilliant cover. The slow reveal of the snake gets me every time I look at this jacket. I love the juxtaposition between the rigid clinical type treatment and the fluidity of the image. Theres something so awesomely weird and psychedelic about this, it almost reminds me of a 70s Polish movie poster. The masterful layout and simple color palette combine to give this cover so much wonderful, crazy energy. So you know the drill. Fantastic work with 3D elements for the title and other parts of it. A great modernist design and an original way to play with a portrait on a cover. Feel free to skip that part if youd just like to look at some pretty book art. It has a tension that makes me stop and read the title. If youd like me to add more covers and update this post in the future, let me know in the comments below! The image is a bit blurry here but thats because its a picture from online and not an original cover (so its not a blurry one originally). When a cover is so beautifully thought through it makes me very happy. Very elegant, great colors (blue goes to white then red). Im obsessed with this typeface as well as the heavenly gold rays that make the cover seem to glow. Very well done in that regard. Im especially drawn to her use of color, and this title is no exception. But as you may know if youre a frequent Literary Hub reader, I also like stats, and therefore I have tallied the best of the best for you here. Book has taken a while in the writing of, so will bookmark this page and check back again. Well manipulated pictures and Photoshop effects. Its wonderful when the art and title work together as perfectly as they do on this cover. plays with the type makes this cover so intriguing and ominous while the bright colors invite the reader in and place is squarely in LA. The artwork looks like a ship or could also be rocks which is such a smart way to get ones attention. Fantastic Photoshop skills. A really great atmosphere for cover and well-done text. Your weekday morning guide to breaking news, cultural analysis, and everything in between, This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google, Here Are 20 Photo Books That Brought Us Joy In The Very Exhausting Year Of 2020, The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. Superb! Love the collagey mash of Western and Magritte. 57. The texture! The collage and lettering are both so strong they could exist as separate entities. It takes me back to being a child with my first carton of juice. Such a brilliant composition and smart use of the image as part of the typography. Theres quite a lot going on but the balance is great. Love how the type works with the draping in the background. I feel like R.O Kwons quote applies to the cover design as well. Im a fan! Unreadable text in a small thumbnail but the picture is so original that its no problem. Not liking the font choice as it is missing something, maybe the effect doesnt match it too but the stock photo of girl and effect with the book is awesome. Every time I look at the face, I find something new in the art. Cliches do become for a reason, they work. It prompted me to see what it was about. Looks very realistic and cool. Beautiful use of color, and the idiosyncratic calligraphy is at once antique and new. Not sure if its a book cover, probably not, but I just had to include this brilliant use of Woodys face and skyline of Manhattan. I also love the retro feel with the colors/pattern/texture, and the immediately recognizable stereotypical flying saucer. Great colors, great background and simple text that uses 2 fonts and colors (some contrast that matches well between fonts). Do you know who published the Romeo and Juliet? 41. It feels like you could get lost in the endless repetition. Rebecca Solnit,Orwells Roses; cover design by Gray318 (Viking, October), Second Place (tie; 5 covers each): Lauren Peters-Collaer, Na Kim, Second Place (four-way tie; 10 covers each): February, March, July, August, Third Place (tie; 9 covers each): June, October. There are many of those too so its hard to find. Has a lovely depth and charm to it while also encompassing the subjects enigmatic life. This is so simple and clever! This whole series has amazing designs. The illustration and type here is so fun and striking. A wholly unique cover, this one really caught my eye in store. I love the subtle type treatment and the simplicity of the artwork and how it plays with the title perfectly. The metallic effects and tactile finish are just brilliant. Great illustration, use of textures and nice text. Wowser great effect and design work for visual. Na is so good at capturing the core of a text in the simplest yet most memorable way possible. A minimalist master, Janet Hansens restraint knows no bounds! I hear a suspenseful violin crescendo when I look at this jacket. Awesome cover. Serial Killer Z: Infection by Philip Harris. Thriller | Crime | Mystery | Suspense Premade Book Covers, Horror | Dystopian | Paranormal Premade Book Covers, Young Adult| Fantasy | Sci-Fi Premade Book Covers, Whats Working Now in Book Cover Design: Thriller/Mystery/Suspense, 6 Things All Good Book Covers Have in Common. Love the minimalist approach and the tiny peaks through the curtains. Reptilian and human at the same time, a composition that controls your eye and an image that leaves you with so many questions. Love the red badge here too. Id rather not admit how many books I have purchased because of Laurens cover designs. This design by Tristan has been an exception. Just mystifying! Too Close to Breathe by Olivia Kiernan. Adds that commercialized feel that book is talking about. The illustrations by Manshen Lo are beautiful, but the way Jon has integrated them into the cover is what makes it such a success. Silhouette looks like one of your covers! Hope you enjoyed this collection of book covers and short thoughts on why they work. Yang really designed this repeat pattern in a fun and fresh way with a truly vibrant color palette. Awesome sky just grabbed me. Thank you. The inky-ness creates that ghostly atmosphere, while the trees remind us of a familiarly dark place. Just so minimal and beautiful with clear consideration over every detail. The cool smoke effect adds nice differentiation and untraditional title adds a nice flavor too (the wave effect of it). I am always a sucker for a title on an object and this design really engages me. The tactile quality matched with the optically distorting rays of purples makes for a simple but impactful cover. The sky and dimensional illusion feels so cohesive. Clever, oddball fun, with a biting edge (pun unavoidable). I love all that empty black space and how the rigid lines turn a bit fiddly when they get chopped. Love the rich but muted colors and the thorns on the stems. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. There is a fine line between simple/genius and simple/not-done-yet. I always love a book on a book cover, and there are so many here. I feel like Joanne is the queen of picking stylish fonts! Only a few elements needed to elevate this. Do I ever get past one of these lists without including Rachel Willey? Fits the tone of the book perfectly. Your email address will not be published. This is such a bright and dynamic design. Your comments pointed out some items I would never have noticed, for instance, the guy with red hair. One of myfavoritesof the bunch! Love the colors, simple image and how they used typography here. The pairing of the fonts and pacifier really make the cover pop. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Copy this page's address to your clipboard. Every element is so precise, but still human, warm, with ephemera beautifully evocative of a time and place. I love the dimensionality, minimalism and the perceived motion of that phone left swinging off the hook. 9. Stunning use of negative space and a trompe loeil effect. The horse, the droplets, the strange physics at workwhat is happening?? This title has a lot of text and Linda Huang did such a great job with it! Not sure about the font choice but effects and illustration are great. This one looks great. This cover just blows me away. The graphic simplicity had me from the start and its perfect for the story. The woven flowers with the elegant san serif type is so pleasing to the eye. Intriguing. Never an easy job to package the follow-up to a huge international bestseller. Adam Morris,Mona; cover design by Thomas Colligan (FSG, March), Kristen Arnett, With Teeth; cover design by Lauren Peters-Collaer (Riverhead, June). Nice example of how un-standard text placing and perspective can work. Beautiful cover. Excellent use of a three-dimensional object within a design, graceful combination of illustration and photography, and spot-on funny: we all peacock with our words. Who knew!? Each element is so carefully composed and clearly considered hereI can feel it! Love the original and detailed illustrations. Reminds me of an old box of chocolates, both simple & delicious. A perfect expression of an instagram post rendered as book cover, and I love the addition of the water droplets that give it that extra dimension. That hand reaching out. The type sings out. The plane is small but still is placed so well too that its easy to see and tell what the book is featuring. The black and gold are striking alone, but the use of negative space carries so much weight. Honorable Mentions (3-way tie, with 4 mentions each): Melissa Broder, Milk Fed; cover design by Jaya Miceli (Scribner, February) I cannot find it. A beautifully striking design that is almost just one color. This project makes me so happy I could cry. The delicate imagery and imperfect type work together beautifullyeach element is a clue left for the reader to explore and ponder why its there. Evocative cover. Its fresh, but iconic with a classic feel. 27. The drippy lettering is full of character without compromising the art it sits on. Required fields are marked *. I love the way this cover conveys a subtle narrative through its teetering forms and type moving in all directions. Great colors too. What can I say about this, except that I want to reach out and touch it! Incredibly beautiful marriage of typography and image. Keep up with all things PRINT by subscribing to our weekly email newsletter. Good colors and nice concept. This cover is masterful in its avoidance of the obvious; It somehow evokes the experience of sharing food, crying, and graphic representation of the H Mart logo with barely any literal representation. This says Western but also not your grandpas Western..
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