Book Covers
Year
'12-2026
Client
Penguin Random House, Jaico, Northatlantic, Harpercollins India
Service
Book Cover Design
What does a book cover do?
A cover has about two seconds to do its job. It has to signal genre, mood, and something about the reading experience, all without being so obvious it becomes forgettable. The brief is almost always the same: make it work on a shelf, on a screen, and somehow feel like it belongs to this specific book and not just its category.
Some Examples
Each cover gets treated as its own thing. "A Murder is Fixed" needed to feel fun and a bit pulpy without tipping into parody, so the illustration plays it broad but the colour and composition keep it sharp. "A Return to Self" leans into found photography and slab type that feels like a vintage travel document, which suits a book about displacement and identity. "Invisible Housemates" uses natural history illustration to bring a warmth and curiosity to urban wildlife — creatures you'd normally swat or shoo, made to feel worth knowing. "Climate, Psychology and Change" needed to hold a heavy subject without looking heavy, which is where the distorted botanicals and the pink gradient do the work. The approach changes every time, which is the part that keeps it interesting.
