Elena Giavaldi is a great graphic designer and illustrator, but in my opinion where she excels the most is definitely at creating book covers.

It is really hard to graphically give an idea of a book and make it visually attractive, even harder than when working on brochure printing. I’ve been searching for book covers that achieve this, you can see what I found in this post. The Gettysburg address, designed by David Pearson. Czechoslovakian book cover, 1954. Via […]

The New Yorker is famous for its gorgeous illustrated covers, but the published covers are only the tip of the iceberg. Many, many cover proposals stay unpublished for various reasons. Françoise Mouly, who has been chosing covers since 1993 as art director, authored a book giving these rejected covers some exposure. You can see some […]

John Bertram is an architect and blogger. Three years ago, he sponsored a book cover competition asking designers to create a better Lolita cover. The contest is now being turned into a book about those covers. You can see a few of these covers here, for more you should check out the article on PrintMag. […]