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Meet the artist behind the cover of this year’s Booker Prize winner

Creative Boom

We met Aino-Maija Metsola to discuss her signature style and creative approach to illustrating book covers. Its cover—a soft-edged, inky interpretation of space—was designed by Helsinki-based artist Aino-Maija Metsola. Since then, Metsola has occasionally illustrated book covers published by Vintage/Penguin.

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Penguin Books reveals the Cover Design Award 2024 shortlist

Creative Boom

Louis Martin, Cover Design Award 2024 Shortlist – Fiction Over 1,800 submissions were entered into the Cover Design Awards 2024 hosted by Penguin Books, and the shortlist of 30 hopefuls has just been announced. Everyone likes to think they don't judge a book by its cover, but in reality, we all do to an extent.

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Penguin Books reveals the winners of its 2024 Cover Design Award

Creative Boom

The winners of Penguin's 2024 Cover Design Award Competition was once again fierce for this year's prestigious awards by Penguin Books. Today, Penguin Books has announced the winners of its popular Cover Design Award , which sees aspiring designers and illustrators reimagine the covers of bestselling Penguin titles.

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Cover Series For Jon Ronson Books

Designer Daily

With good use of white space, playing with form and counter-form, and creative use of typography, these covers by Ala Uddin are almost textbook examples of various design techniques. The London-based designer keeps some mystery in the covers and forces the potential reader to get closer to get a first clue, brilliant.

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Bjoern Altmann's new book celebrates the overlooked beauty of manhole covers

Creative Boom

London-based illustrator and type designer Bjoern Altmann has turned his attention to the hidden wonder of manhole covers in his latest book, which recreates designs from over 80 countries as vector images. Bjoern first became aware of manhole covers in a design context when studying graphic design in Germany.

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Why a new book celebrating design legend Margaret Calvert deserves your support

Creative Boom

So it's a shock, quite frankly, that no one has ever released a book dedicated to her design work. A crowdfunding campaign has been launched by the publishing platform Volume to create the first book dedicated to the work of designer, titled Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work. The time is right Firstly, how did the book come about?

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Expressive Type Today: How typography captivates in a world of visual overload

Creative Boom

In an era when attention spans are dwindling and visual overload has become the norm, Counter-Print's new book celebrates the transformative power of expressive typography. For Jon Dowling, one of the book's creators, it was born out of the overwhelming response to a previous project celebrating large-scale typographic works. "A