Artists take on a Terry Pratchett classic for the Penguin Cover Design Award

You can't judge a book by its cover, but Penguin believes you can judge a cover itself. The publisher has just announced the ...

Is that your kid's drawing or the cover of the hottest new novel?

From fashion runways to the covers of books, a trendy "naive" aesthetic is ditching polished perfection for the deliberate ...
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‘Restraint, clarity, respect for the story’: Devangana Dash’s philosophy for designing book covers

Devangana Dash, winner of 2025 Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize. Devangana Dash is a book designer, art director and educator, and the most recent winner of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize. She ...
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The best book cover designs of 2022 revealed

The Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) has revealed its winners for the best book designs of the year in addition to a special competition for the “winner of ...
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How to judge a book by its cover

Art historian Alka Pande is multi-tasking. When talking about book cover design in the run-up to the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize announcement anytime this month, she cuts out to handle something ...