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What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has the power to ...
Next, read the book. Whether you like it is irrelevant; you’re reading for symbols, characters or themes that could visually represent the book without giving too much away. A cover should communicate ...
Readers with a keen eye for book cover design are likely to associate uniform jacket schemes primarily with boutique literary publishers—among them Archipelago Books, Fitzcarraldo Editions, McNally ...
In 2022, Elisha Zepeda had given up on becoming a designer and was working as a barista at an Oregon bookstore. Today, he’s a salaried book cover designer at Penguin Random House and an in-demand ...
Book cover of Face Up: A Collection of Outlaw Poems Blind publisher Belo Miguel Cipriani of Oleb Books used accessibility tools to successfully design the cover of Face Up: A Collection of Outlaw ...
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, finally, ...
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