Archive - A Book Designer's Notebook

When Ugly is a Good Thing in Book Cover Design

Hair, Flesh, and "Bad" Typography

5 hrs ago •

April 2025

Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should

On AI and the Creative Process

Apr 26 •

How to Design A Book Cover: Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World

Sketches, Drafts, Revisions, and More

Apr 24 •

How to Become a Book Designer in Twenty-One Simple* Steps

A Foolproof Guide

Apr 19 •

The Worst Book Cover I’ve Ever Designed

And the Problem with Hybrid Publishing

Apr 12 •

How Jazmin Welch Designs A Book Cover

Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea by Alex Wood

Apr 9 •

The Indented Paragraph is a Haunted House

And its ghost is called the pilcrow.

Apr 5 •

March 2025

Reading! Recommendations!

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Mar 29 •

How to Design a Book Cover: Discourse in Black

By Keith Gilyard

Mar 26 •

The Best-Looking Self-Published Book I’ve Ever Seen

And How I Can Still Tell It Was Self-Published

Mar 22 •

Can We Please Make Book Covers Good Again?

A rant and response about contemporary book cover design

Mar 15 •

How to Design a Book Cover: ZAFTIG

By Molly Raynor

Mar 12 •

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