secrets of the book designer

True Crime and Transcendentalists: When Designing a Book Cover Takes You on a Long Strange Trip

Natalia Olbinski on Creating the Cover for Ruby Todd’s “Bright Objects”

 
By Natalia Olbinski  August 2, 2024
Secrets of the Book Designer

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

By Math Monahan  August 15, 2023
Behind the Book Cover

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

By Literary Hub  August 10, 2023
Behind the Book Cover

“Something Beyond Flatness On Paper.” On Creating the Cover For Carlo Rovelli’s Newest Book

By Jason Booher  March 29, 2023
Secrets of the Book Designer

Secrets of the Book Designer: On Typography, Painting, and Finding That Single Visual Moment

By Peter C. Baker  May 31, 2022
Book Covers

The Story Behind Jonathan Franzen’s New Backlist Book Cover Redesigns

By Emily Temple  March 17, 2022
Book Covers

How to Reframe the Strangeness of The Plague as Sci-Fi Noir

By Sunra Thompson  November 24, 2021
Secrets of the Book Designer

How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves

By Elizabeth Connor  December 15, 2020
Secrets of the Book Designer

Luke Bird on Channeling the 1980s for the Cover of
The Prettiest Star

By Luke Bird  December 9, 2019
Secrets of the Book Designer

Sometimes You Have to Build the Book Cover in Your Living Room

By Nicole Caputo  November 26, 2019
Secrets of the Book Designer

The Perils of Designing a Cover for a Novel You Truly Love

By Oliver Munday  July 31, 2019
Behind the Book Cover

How to Use Red, White, and Blue on a Book Cover (Without Going Too Patriotic)

By Nicole Caputo  May 6, 2019
Feature

How T Kira Madden’s Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls Got Its Glitter

By Tree Abraham  March 25, 2019
Design

Writing This Book Felt Like Trying to Make Visual Art

By Sarah M. Broom  February 25, 2019
Design

Resisting the Obvious Design for a Book Cover

By Alison Forner  February 25, 2019
Design

How to Design a Book Cover… Backwards?

 January 8, 2019
Design

The Joys of Designing a Debut Writer’s Book

By Sarahmay Wilkinson  December 10, 2018
Design

How to Capture Alternating Plot Lines on a Book Cover

By Donna Cheng  November 5, 2018
Design

When a Writer Wants You and Only You to Design Their Cover

By Alison Forner  October 10, 2018
Design

The Challenges of Creating a Cover for a Forgotten Modernist Classic

By Roman Muradov  September 18, 2018
Design

The Trouble With Designing a Book When Its Author is in Jail

By Janet Hansen  August 16, 2018
Design

When You’re Asked to Design a Cover After Others Have Tried…

By Colleen Reinhart  August 7, 2018
Design

How Rachel Cusk’s Outline Trilogy Got Those Iconic Covers

By Charlotte Strick  July 31, 2018
Deep Dive

The Art of the Moving Book Cover

By Michael Salu  May 16, 2018
Feature

When You Have to Kill the Perfect Book Cover

By Sara Wood  February 13, 2018
Essay

What Happens When a Math Major Becomes a Book Designer

By Lauren Peters-Collaer  December 12, 2017
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