An Archive of Book Cover Designs & Designers

Books that Matt Dorfman had something or other to do with

cover of The Psychopath Test

cover of Adland

cover of Can they do that?

cover of Bases Loaded

The Book Cover Archive, for the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design.

Who runs this thing?

© 2025 Ben Pieratt & Eric Jacobsen. All covers are the copyright of their respective owners. We work hard to credit well.

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Font identification

Font identification generously provided by Stephen Coles, editor of Fonts In Use and Typographica.

Portfolio sites of
book cover designers

Mark Abrams
Kelly Blair
Milan Bozic
Christopher Brand
Barbara deWilde
Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich
David Drummond
David Gee
Jonathan Gray
Darren Haggar
High Design
Jamie Keenan
Chip Kidd™
Gregg Kulick
Chin-Yee Lai
Mark Melnick
Peter Mendelsund
David Pearson
Isaac Tobin
Megan Wilson
Ben Wiseman
Henry Sene Yee
Helen Yentus

Great sites on
book cover design

The Casual Optimist
The Book Design Review
Book Covers Anonymous
Faceout Books
Judge a Book…
Tal Designz
The Penguin Blog
Peter Mendelsund’s Thoughts
The Pelican Project
Joe Kral’s Penguin Collection
Caustic Cover Critic

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