Book cover graphic design

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Wholly subjective? Yes! Utterly brilliant and inspiring literary eye candy? With hope, also yes.

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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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…

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

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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Rives is a paper company with products that are perfect for projects ranging from lithography, intaglio, screen printing, relief printing, linocut, collotype, and drawing. New Zealand-based Fuman Studio was tasked with the job of designing the promotional piece for the company titled 'Touchy Feely' due to its vast range of textures. Instead of sticking to the mundane, they rethought the norm by creating a piece to be cherished as much as art instead of being viewed and tossed

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A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable contemporary works. It includes the most well-known Japanese writers - Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new pieces, from Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to Banana Yoshimoto's 'Bee Honey'. Ranging over myth, horror, love, nature, modern life, a diabolical painting, a cow…

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