More publishers should do this!

And here are Lit Hub's November cover picks: lithub.com/the-15-best-...

Here are SPINE's November book cover picks! spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...

Monocle on 3 independent publishers with distinctive cover designs monocle.com/culture/char...

Get in losers we're ruining the workplace. Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.

Spine add to their university press coverage this year with 25 additional covers from 2025... spinemagazine.co/articles/uni...

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

I wrote a book about graphic design

Dick Cheney Shot Me in the Face and Other Tales of Men in Pain by Timothy O’Leary; design by David A. Gee (Unsolicited Press / February 2017)

“I don’t like things looking too sharp. I don’t really know how to use Photoshop” www.itsnicethat.com/features/vas...

Sheep... lithub.com/whats-with-a...

From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...

I missed @gray318.bsky.social's cover design (photo by Inez & Vinoodh) for Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith in October's round-up, and it's a reminder that I miss a lot of covers every month. If I've overlooked some of the work you're proud of this year, drop me a note!

And here are Lit Hub's cover picks for October... lithub.com/the-11-best-...

There are some nice selections in Spine's Book Covers We Love post this month.. spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...

Here are this month's book covers of note...

Opens tomorrow!

Recent bits and bobs danielgray.com

The cover of this week’s Money Issue, “Market Shift,” by Christoph Niemann. Start exploring: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9pBcAS

NEWS! Plymouth Design Forum has launched a YouTube channel featuring interviews with its guest speakers. I got to sit in on one of these when the brilliant David Pearson visited back in 2023. You can watch it here: youtu.be/06ssiY5z9bY?...

There were some good book covers in 2020 (a tough year though reading this post back) www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2020/12...

It's PHYSICS FOR CATS publication day!! Luna has her copy: do you? www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

László Krasznahorkai covers by the Office of Paul Sahre for @ndbooks.bsky.social

Physics for Cats: Science Cartoons by Tom Gauld Tom Gauld has a new collection of his science-based cartoons for the New Scientist, Physics for Cats, out this week. Tom talked to the New York Times about the previous collection, Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, in 2020.

A new picture book for spooky season

THE TRAGEDY OF TRUE CRIME: Four Guilty Men and the Stories that Define Us by John J. Lennon / @CeladonBooks - #coverDesign by #HenrySeneYee; AD: Anne Twomey - ❌ #outtakes #killedconcepts #rejectedcovers - #TragedyofTrueCrime

When Book Jackets Were Bad, Hawkins’s Were Good by Steven Heller www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

The Wave by Evelyn Scott (1929) Cover by Arthur Hawkins

Here is my late look at some of September's more interesting book covers: www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/09...

Here are this month's book cover of note

Here are LitHub's best book covers of September lithub.com/the-14-best-...

While you're all patiently waiting for me to finish up this month's post, here's SPINE's September Book Covers We Love spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...

Vintage Classics Julio Cortázar covers by Neasden Control Centre

Polish poster for SOLARIS (1972), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Stanislaw Lem - BOTD in 1921

It's almost here. The Prompt-Brush 1.0 book ships next week. After more than 1700 drawings, it's finally about to land in readers' hands. If you'd like to be among the first, pre-orders are open now — and they make a huge ditterence. Prompt-brush.com

ICYMI last week, here's the most recent book covers of note post: www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/08...

And and and, you can find my picks here if you missed them yesterday... www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/08...

And and, Zach Petit's picks for PRINT: www.printmag.com/book-covers/...

And Lit Hub's... lithub.com/the-14-best-...

Here are SPINE's August picks... spinemagazine.co/book-covers-...

Here are this month's book cover selections!

Still looking at old posts, these Cynan Jones covers designed by Jenny Grigg for Granta are great... www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2016/09...

April 2017 was also a good month for book covers! www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2017/04...

Apropos nothing, I was just looking at some old posts and there were some fantastic book covers back in November 2018! www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2018/11...

Artist Amy Sherald: Censorship Has Taken Hold at the Smithsonian. I Refused to Play Along. “History shows us what happens when governments demand that museums perform loyalty. Nazi Germany weaponized them. So did the Soviet Union.” [msnbc.com]

Cover for Swallows by Natsuo Kirino, out now on Canongate. Art Director: Rafi Romaya

Reissue cover for Dave Randal's Sound System, out now on @plutopress.bsky.social Art Direction by Melanie Patrick.

BOOKS! by Murray McCain, with cover design and illustrations by John Alcorn (1962). #wardsmorguefile #moreartlessdoom

Judge, April 18, 1925, with cover art by Ruth Eastman.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com