Crowlab Studio aims to deliver distinctive visual solutions for publishing, producing covers and illustrations that translate into accessible, market-ready products. Capturing a book’s theme and tone with clarity, impact, and originality whilst honouring its writer with our best creative efforts. We can also create our own illustrative typography or work with yours.

Our book cover designs aim to emphasise the stories they represent. Each cover is developed as an extension of the book itself, carrying its themes through composition, textures, and mood. Despite being a new direction within Crowlab Studio’s wider practice, this sits alongside our conceptual work as a way of conveying complex ideas and individual voices, turning every book into a unique object with its own character and story both visually as well as within its pages.

Concept Book Cover Illustration for Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphoisis'. Dip-pen Indian Ink and Graphite.

'The Transformation of the Witch of Treva' Book Illustration for Dark Cornwall, The Gothe Institite of the Arts and The Cornish Folklore Museum. Brush Pen and Layered Watercolour on 300 gsm paper

The design was creatued using pigment ink on 200 gsm paper and digitally coloured using a variety of professional brushes. The drawing was then developed into a complex animation to be used on social media and sent to both the podcast and the comics publisher. The design was creatued using pigment ink on 200 gsm paper and digitally coloured using a variety of professional brushes. The drawing was then developed into a complex animation to be used on social media and sent to both the podcast and the comics publisher for promotion.

Lino Cut Book Cover Concept 'Shellfish Science: Japanese Edition'