A dust jacket is difficult to size, it's a complex three-dimensional object once wrapped on a hardcover book. Here's a how-to!

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.

If you’re a self-publishing author, you know that there are a lot of factors to consider when it comes to creating a professional-looking book. One important element that is often overlooked is the dust jacket – the protective cover that goes on the outside of your book. In this post, we’ll take a closer look […]

Series of book covers for some of Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novels: Love In the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Based on tropical patterns and colors, magical realism, and references to the overlyi…

I confess that I am the sort of person who judges books by their covers. When I walk into a bookstore, I usually spend about ten minutes just browsing the covers of the books that are spread out on the nearest table. I'm not interested in the content, I don't care about the story. All I want at that moment is to look at is the image, the type choices, the paper and printing. Nothing against authors. I just like the look and feel of paper books. Happily, I've been designing a few books covers…

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