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How to Design a Cover for the Emotional Center of a Novel

How to Design a Cover for the Emotional Center of a Novel

Math Monahan on creating the cover for The Lookback Window

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What It Was Like to Design for Barbie

What It Was Like to Design for Barbie

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Two Designers, Two Countries, Two Covers: How Limitarianism Got Its Look

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Exclusive: See the cover for DéLana R. A. Dameron’s Redwood Court.

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See the cover for Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe's essay collection <em>Thunder Song</em>.

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