Book jacket design ideas

Ever wondered how to make a book jacket? In this tutorial, you'll learn how to design a dust jacket template for your next best selling book!

Inspired by a scene in the Netflix version of The Little Prince. One of my favorite books in the world. Here’s the full book jacket redesign that I made.

I confess that I am the sort of person who judges books by their covers. When I walk into a bookstore, I usually spend about ten minutes just browsing the covers of the books that are spread out on the nearest table. I'm not interested in the content, I don't care about the story. All I want at that moment is to look at is the image, the type choices, the paper and printing. Nothing against authors. I just like the look and feel of paper books. Happily, I've been designing a few books covers…

Your teacher may ask you to design a book cover that contains a summary of the book and a biography of the author. Have fun with this book jacket project!

ThePaperGnome is the website of Designer, Illustrator and Hand Lettering artist, Darcy Terry. ThePaperGnome specializes in pet portraits and hand lettering.

Towards the end of last year we spotted the delightfully designed book covers of Janet Hansen in The New York Times’ _The Best Book Covers of 2016_ list. The chosen design was a typographic illusion cover of Rebecca Schiff’s novel _The Bed Moved_, that would stop any avid reader or design fiend in their tracks. After discovering that Janet is a designer at Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, we soon unearthed an array of thoughtfully apt book covers.

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Do you know what I hate? Dust jackets. Yep those paper/plastic covers placed over books (mostly hard cover) that are there to protect and add color and pictures to our tomes. I usually take them off the minute the book is purchased. Usually 'cause the sound and the slipperiness of it drives me crazy when I am trying to read, but also 'cause the book underneath is usually so much more elegant looking. I also like how my series that are in hard back look all similar without the dust jacket and…

So much attention is paid to the front of books that it’s easy to forget that the front cover is only a part, and perhaps not even the most important part, of a book cover. The back cover, th…

Book Dust Jackets - enhance presentation, preserve quality, and offer creative potential. Learn to design, set up, and order dust jackets for all book sizes.