The Story Behind Designing Book Covers

Episode 054 • 42 min

How do designers craft the perfect book cover?

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

In this episode, Sam learns more about how book covers are designed. He is joined by Scott Berkun, an author and popular speaker whose talks range in topics from creativity, leadership, public speaking, design and more. Scott chats about the collaboration process and the surprising reality behind book cover design. Later on in the show, they are joined by Jon Key, an artist, designer, writer and educator who co-founded the Brooklyn design studio Morcos Key with Wael Morcos. Together, Jon and Wael designed the long-awaited Black Futures book by New York Times journalist Jenna Wortham and art curator Kimberly Drew. Jon chats about how he uses writing during his design process and landing on the cover for the Black Futures book.

Weekly Dose of Good Design

• Sam: True West
• Jon: Dr. B

Links

• Podcast: Design Makes the World
• Blog: Scott Berkun
• Work: Tim Kordik
• Exhibition: Indigenous Woman
• Book: Fearless
• Work: Tenth Magazine
• Exhibition: Makes/Reads
• Book: Henry Taylor