cover design

The anatomy of a printed book cover

The anatomy of a printed book cover

I send lots of covers off to press for print and web. I love working on covers, all the parts of a book are so exciting but covers are the faces, the part that's judged first and it's why a good designer will take time on them. Never accept second best!

'The latest one to go through is for a history title, Balsham, a village story, 1617–2017. This was a surprisingly difficult cover to do because of the volume of images to work with.