Puffin Designer Classics
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Book publisher Puffin has recently commissioned various artists and designers to create limited edition cover designs for classic stories including Th...
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Courtney • Jarrod Taylor
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I haven’t featured any book jackets in awhile, so when I came across these designs by Jarrod Taylor I jumped at the chance....
Matt Lehman
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I’m loving pretty much everything in Matt Lehman‘s portfolio, from the design to the illustrations. But today I’m particularly, I...
Kimberley Chan
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Another great portfolio from another recent grad: Kimberly Chan. In particular I’m drawn to her modern, unfussy book cover designs like those sh...
Ben Wiseman
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Simply inspiring book cover designs by Ben Wiseman. ...
Wizard of Oz Reimagined
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I’m hugely inspired by the work of Jessica Hische’s students. Each student was challenged to create a book cover design, endpapers, titlep...
Boys’ Adventure
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Coralie Bickford-Smith is perhaps most well-known for her Clothbound Classics Series one and two. However, I’m also really impressed with her ar...
Jim Tierney
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I’m loving the rich colors, graceful hand-lettering and vintagey feel of these book covers by Jim Tierney....
Tigerette
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Tigerette is the freelance design studio of Robin Bilardello, an art director at Harper Collins and 2006 ADC Young Guns winner....
Nate Salciccioli
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Book covers by Nate Salciccioli....
Cover Inspiration
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Gorgeous vintage patterned covers from Insel Verlag....
Elizabeth Ackerman Valins
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Based on these gorgeous spreads, it looks like New York-based designer, Elizabeth Ackerman Valins at one time had the enviable job of working at Marth...
Leigh-Anne Mullock
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Student designer, Leigh-Anne Mullock hand stitched the artwork for these classic book covers with imagery that each novel’s protagonists might h...
Scott Reinhard
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Designer Scott Reinhard has designed some really great book covers....
Jason Booher
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Jason Booher designs book jackets and covers, and some typographically beautiful ones I might add....
Jamie Conkleton + Space Opera
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Recent grad, Jamie Conkleton has a really tight portfolio (you might have seen this sake packaging on the dieline)—each piece is really polished and...
Saraiva Classics Redesigned
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Brazilian design firm, Rex Design, recently gave the Saraiva Classics book collection a whole new look. The collection, which brings together 24 title...
C.S. Lewis Signature Series
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Designer Jason Gabbert and illustrator Antar Dayal collaborated on the design of C.S. Lewis’s non-fiction works....
Golden Gems
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Not sure how I’ve failed to mention them before, but Golden Gems is an awesome blog that catalogs all the Little Golden Books we knew and loved ...
W.W. Norton Book Design archive
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Publisher W.W. Norton is now cataloging all of its covers on Flickr. via The Book Cover Archive...
Peter Mendelsund
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Peter Mendelsund has quite the portfolio of book jackets. You can see the whole lot on his site or on the Book Cover Archive....
Christopher Brand
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Most of Christopher Brand’s book covers have an element of playfulness to them that I love. via Book Cover Archive...
Helen Yentus
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I love the bold simplicity of the Helen Yentus’ book cover designs. via made by suzi...
Harry Potter Reimagined
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I never caught on to the Harry Potter craze, but if they ever reprinted the novels with these covers—designed by M.S. Corley—I might change my min...
I Can Read Movies
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Designer Spacesick took it upon himself to reimage a whole slew of famous films as vintage novels—I’m filing this project under the “Ide...
Little Bee
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I love the book cover design for Chris Cleave’s novel, Little Bee, which comes out next month. Anyone know who the designer is? Update: The auth...
The Book Cover Archive
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Be prepared to waste a ton of time on this site. The Book Cover Archive features over 800 examples of excellence and creativity in book design. And on...
Ben Gibson
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I’m loving these book covers by Brooklyn-based designer and illustrator, Ben Gibson....
Beyond Posters
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The Heads of State—one of my go-to shops for concert posters—has updated their portfolio with lots of new design work. Below are a couple of my fa...
Jordan Crane
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I love these prints by illustrator Jordan Crane. A lot of them are out of print, unfortunately, but they are beautiful to look at it. You can check ou...
Isaac Tobin
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I’m really loving the work of designer Isaac Tobin. I was first drawn to his book covers, but after looking through his portfolio I really love ...
Harvard Business Review Classics
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There’s nothing I don’t love about the design of these books—their compact size, the colors, their common design elements and, this goes...
Great Ideas Volume III
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Yet another beautiful set of book designs from Penguin’s Great Ideas series, many of them by David Pearson. It reminds you how much can be done ...
Fun Book Jacket Designs
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CSA Images added a gallery showcasing book jacket designs that feature their images. Some really cool stuff there, especially the ones below....
Speaking of Penguin…
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I am coveting this newly-released set of James Bond novels. Not that I’m a particularly big James Bond fan, but the cover art alone is worth the...