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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.

Decorated edges — sprayed bright colors, stenciled with ornate imagery — have taken the publishing industry by storm.

This will eventually set the stage for AI to design book covers without the need for human input. The study took 137,788 unique book covers from Amazon and trained a neural network to recognize ...

Sareen’s cover art for Leila Seth’s book, Talking of Justice, won the first Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize in 2016. It was a simple design: A bright red background, with the lowercase j as ...

Devangana Dash is a book designer, art director and educator, and the most recent winner of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize. She won the prize for designing Conversations with Aurangzeb ...

Doubleday Books Art Director Emily Mahon has been designing book covers for 20 years. After studying graphic design at Penn State, and an internship at Harper’s Bazaar, she was ready to leave ...

Genre Genres help book readers know what they're in for, and they don't wait until they start reading to begin guessing what genre they'll be enjoying. If your cover doesn't look like your genre ...

The styling Oprah’s 111th book club pick features type in a shade of yellow that you’ll also see on the cover of the forthcoming “ Happiness & Love,” among others.

These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing. A cover designer’s role is to interpret a book visually, reflecting what the author and publisher have achieved in the text.

Here are some of the best book covers of 2023 that you did not see—with insight directly from the designers who created them. The version that ended up being scrapped is on left, the final ...