Book cover design inspiration

If you’re looking for escapism, 2023’s book cover design trends seem determined to banish the darkness. This year feels less about the words and more about the feeling: it seems like it’s time to forget guidelines around hierarchy and decorum and just let rip. Check out the 2023 book cover design trends.

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Explore the inspiring design portfolio by Format Wars. This portfolio showcases creatively inspiring graphic designs by this designer.

If you’re a self-published author, standing out can be especially difficult. But there is one thing you can do to give your book a chance to stand out in an overcrowded marketplace: finding a great cover designer to work with. Here's how!

Scientific advice on how to best place visual objects together.

rose.gabler picked a winning design in their book cover contest. For just $399 they received 214 designs from 29 designers.

jesseallenellis created a custom book cover on 99designs. They got dozens of unique ideas from professional designers and picked their favorite.

Here is my book design project that I worked on last year at my university. I needed to choose one of the classic books proposed by the teacher and create 6 illustrations, as well as a book layout. For the project I chose the famous novel by George Orwe…

If you're looking for book cover design inspiration, here is a collection of 75 awesome book covers. This can help you come up with ideas for self-published book's cover and also learn why these designs work (I've updated this post in 2019 to feature some latest covers).