Book Cover Designs

Browse more than 500 book cover designs and listen to more than 50 of today's top designers discuss their process for creating the perfect book cover. Award-winning creative professionals from around the world have applied astonishingly clever cover concepts that play slyly on titles and themes of international bestsellers, both classic and modern, adding new dimensions to the books and breathing new life into bright ideas. Literature lovers and graphic illustrators of all types, as well as book design students and professionals, will relish this inspiring collection of covers of fiction and nonfiction, history and science books, novels and short stories, from old favorites to popular 21st-century titles. For future designers looking for inspiration, as well as hopeless cover lovers, Book Cover Designs is a must-have design reference for any collection. Feel free to judge these books by their covers.

Matthew, a graphic design professional, has worked in book design and covers for more than ten years. He lives with his wife, Christy, and their two sons. His work can be viewed at www.publishingdesigner.com.