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How to paint a book cover fast

Artist Brett Bean shares his process for creating cover art when the deadline was yesterday.
“This cover feels simultaneously classic and entirely new. It’s slightly reminiscent of 1970s science fiction covers (albeit much more restrained), and yet I’ve never seen anything quite like it. That ...
Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them. Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the ...
“Twenty-five years ago, book cover design was barely an industry,” says Bena Sareen. She is currently the consulting creative director at Aleph Book Company in Delhi. But when the millennium turned, ...
Every bookshop shelf tells the same visual story now. Romance, fantasy, literary fiction: the covers blur into one another, shaped by algorithms, stock imagery, and the tyranny of the thumbnail.
It's no surprise that many readers consider a job in book publishing to be one of the most covetable careers. Within publishing, there are widely recognized positions — like that of a book editor or ...