TL;DR Key Takeaways : AI technology is transforming book cover design, offering a cost-effective solution for authors, especially those with tight budgets or multiple projects.

Most videos on book cover designer Elisha Zepeda’s TikTok account have a similar format: he gets an assignment from a publisher, crafts several options, gets feedback, makes some tweaks, and ...

W hile I'm typically not an advocate for judging a book by its cover, this stunning design for Haruki Murakami's 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' has won me over without ever turning a page. Praised ...

For the winning design in the Children’s 0-5 category, designer Audrey Keri-Nagy worked with art director Deirdre McDermott and illustrator Jarvis for the cover of his book The Boy with Flower in His ...

Book cover designers picked the best book covers of 2025 and told us what makes them so great. Skip to main content. ... Elisha Zepeda is a book cover designer with Penguin Press.

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the ...

At first controversial, ‘The Yellow Book’ method caught on, and by the early 20th century book cover design was an established art form. Two versions of the Yellow Book Wikimedia.

Makeover goals After “The Rabbit Hutch” won the National Book Award in 2022, the paperback design was tweaked “to speak to the widest possible audience,” says John Freeman, the book’s ...