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Instagram Accounts that Celebrate Book Cover Design

Ashley Holstrom Nov 13, 2018

Ashley Holstrom

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Ashley Holstrom helps make books at Sourcebooks. She lives near Chicago with her cat named after Hemingway and her bookshelves organized by color. Newsletter: Crooked Reads. Twitter: @alholstrom.

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I love a good book cover, don’t you? You know what’s even better than seeing their spines on your bookshelves? Seeing them on Instagram, face out, from accounts helmed by wonderful people in the creative industry. These curators hunt down cover designers for each post, giving the artists their well-deserved praise. Please do yourself a favor and fill your feed with these Instagram accounts that celebrate book cover design.

Related: Don’t forget to peep our list of book cover designers to follow on Instagram.

A Book Cover Design Society

For French book covers!

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Petit bijou tout droit sorti d’une publicité des années 60, passé à la moulinette du design suisse 😍 on adore!!! « Black no more » de George Schuyler. – Design @playground.paris 💥 – Parue aux @editions1018 💕Pink and Red are soooo good together ! #bookcoverdesign #bookcoverdesigner #frenchdesign #bookstagram #couverturedelivre #graphicdesign

A post shared by A Book Cover Designer Society (@abcdsociety) on Oct 25, 2018 at 1:11am PDT

book Cover Gallery

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FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley from @vintagebooks Getting into the spirit of Halloween with this cover from @suzanneldean @vintagebooksdesign 'Frankenstein gets a makeover featuring a playful font and punchy lime green colour' #Bookcovergallery #coverdesign #bookcoverdesign #bookstagram 📷 by @vintagebooksdesign

A post shared by Book Cover Gallery (@bookcovergallery) on Oct 31, 2018 at 5:22am PDT

Book Flat Lay

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Photo @lostinafictionalworld Please tag #bookflatlay to be featured. 📝 Follow @bookflatlay for more!

A post shared by Books Feature Account (@bookflatlay) on May 25, 2018 at 7:37am PDT

CVRLVR

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No Country Woman by Zoya Patel. Cover by Astred Cherry.

A post shared by CVRLVR (@cvrlvr) on Oct 4, 2018 at 8:09pm PDT

Daily Book Cover

Tip: Scroll through this feed! Covers are posted by color and the effect is gorgeous.

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A very well balanced jacket created by designer Christopher Zucker – the background is just loud enough to capture one’s attention, but subdued enough for the title to stand out amongst it. 🌼

A post shared by @ dailybookcover on Feb 10, 2018 at 6:23pm PST

Good Covers

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The Catcher in the Rye / J. D. Salinger Design: M. S. Corley @corleyms . . . . #bookshelf #bookstagram #bookworm #bibliophile #bookish #dustjacket #dustjackets #graphics #graphicdesign #layout #art #creative #type #lettering #bookart #gooddesign #layout #font #bookcoverdesign #bookcovers #salinger #novel #drawing #illustration #goodcovers

A post shared by Good Covers (@goodcovers) on Dec 20, 2017 at 6:58am PST

Ice Cream Books

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Feel the Music: The Psychedelic Worlds of Paul Major eats a cone of Ube Purple Yam @softswervenyc. Book design by Mark Iosifescu.

A post shared by Ice Cream Books (@ice_cream_books) on Sep 25, 2018 at 4:33am PDT

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Design and illustration: Edward Bettison Publisher: W&N (@orionbooks) Title: The Color Purple by Alice Walker #books #bookdesign #bookstagram

A post shared by perfectbound_ (@perfectbound_) on Aug 30, 2017 at 8:00am PDT

She Designs Books

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This cover of this guide we all should have on our bookshelf, was done by Australian designer @hazellam___ . It’s simple and powerful and was designed halfway around the world.

A post shared by She Designs Books (@shedesignsbooks) on Oct 13, 2018 at 6:27am PDT

Spine Magazine

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It's Book Covers We Love! See which new covers caught the eyes of our panel this week. Link in the bio. #booksofinstagram #bookaddict #bookaholic #bookstagram #books #book #coverdesign #design #designer #graphicdesigner #graphicdesign

A post shared by SPINE (@spinemagazine) on Oct 19, 2018 at 8:14am PDT

Bonus! Two accounts that redesign book covers for fun:

My Bookshelf Redesigned

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Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Maria Semple 2012

A post shared by My Bookshelf Redesigned (@mybookshelfredesigned) on Oct 18, 2018 at 7:07pm PDT

My Fake Book Cover

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A Clockwork Orange 🍊#aclockworkorange #anthonyburgess #aranciameccanica #lattepiu #mfbc #myfakebookcover #fakebookcover #bookcover #bottle #milk #orange #curaludovico #book #instabook #bookstagram #bookaddict

A post shared by MFBC (@myfakebookcover) on Mar 3, 2017 at 12:29pm PST