Showcase of Old & New Creative Book Cover Designs for Inspiration
Do you know the expression “Don’t judge a book by its cover?”. I have to admit that when I’m looking to buy a book, the first thing that catches my eye is the cover. If the cover has an interesting design, I pick up the book, I look at the title and the author and afterwords I read the brief on the back.
Really now, if most people didn’t judge a book by its cover, then a lot of graphic designers would be out of job. We all know that book covers are difficult to design and nice to look at. For a book cover to be effective, it needs to catch the viewer’s eye and get him interested – the cover is like the ambassador of the book so the designer has the hard task of conveying the idea of the book into one single page.
I know that there must be thousands of great book covers in this world, from all around the world writers, but today I put together a list of some old and a few new books with an interesting and creative cover design which some of you may find inspiring. If you know any other creative book cover designs please share them with us in the comments.
The Story of God by Michael Lodahl
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman
Riddles in Mathematics by Eugene P. Northrop
Il Curioso dei Numeri by Andrew Hodges
A Choice of Gods by Clifford D. Simak
The Baseball Codes by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca
Ping Pong: A Play in Two Parts by Arthur Adamov
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Moral Relativism by Steven Lukes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway
This Will Kill You by HP Newquist and Rich Maloof
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Oh The Glory Of It All by Sean Wilsey
The Assault on Jerusalem by Steven Runciman
Did you ever judge a book by its cover?
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