Introduction

Saurav Das is a book cover designer and art director whose work spans India's biggest publishing houses like Penguin, HarperCollins, Aleph, Rupa, and more.

His journey began in branding and packaging before he found his creative calling in book covers, where art, design, and storytelling meet.

The site needed to house and organize over 320 covers spanning wildly different genres, while still feeling like one cohesive portfolio.

Letting the Covers Lead

With 320+ books spanning genres from fiction to biography to self-help, the challenge was building a system flexible enough to organise that range, without the UI ever competing with the cover art itself.

Colour Palette

Typography

Inter Regular

Inter Light

Making the Pun Land

Alongside the site, I designed five advertising visuals to pair with Cynthia's punchy, playful copy built around wordplay and puns, where the image had to land the joke as fast as the line did.