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Towards the end of last year we spotted the delightfully designed book covers of Janet Hansen in The New York Times’ _The Best Book Covers of 2016_ list. The chosen design was a typographic illusion cover of Rebecca Schiff’s novel _The Bed Moved_, that would stop any avid reader or design fiend in their tracks. After discovering that Janet is a designer at Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, we soon unearthed an array of thoughtfully apt book covers.

Sinem Erkas is a graphic artist and designer with an appetite for experimentation and a good sense of fun. Her visual practice ranges from flat digital works to tactile paper collages to 3D sets, often creating playful and bold images that make you look twice.

Barcelona-based graphic design studio

I really can’t stop looking at book covers. I will buy a book if the cover is awesome and I have some money to burn in my pocket. One thing I’ve noticed this year is that, irregardless…

City By Landscape - Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitektur. Graphic design studio Hort has created this publication for Rainer Schmidt

Book cover designs for Bir Bar Filozofu ('A Bar Philosopher'), a novel written by Semih Caliskan. First one is selected as the official cover design, the rest are alternatives. (Agency: I Mean It)

We've been transfixed by all things Danish for the last couple of years, haven't we? While you wait for season three of the Killing, plunge into We, The Drowned, the astonishing sea-faring epic novel by Danish novelist Carsten Jensen in which a young man searches the world for his father, a sailor, who returned from fighting the Germans in the Treårskrigen a changed man and immediately disappeared again - Albert's hunt take him all over a brilliantly described world from Newfoundland to…

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