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Luke Bird is a designer specialising in book design and art direction.

Shortlisted for British Book Awards Designer of the Year 2021, 2023, 2024

Winner, Illustrated Lifestyle Book of the Year 2023, British Book Design and Production Awards

17 x shortlisted for ABCD (Academy of British Cover Design) Awards: 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 (Winner, 2019, Literary Fiction), 2021, 2022, 2023 (Winner, 2023, Crime/Thriller).

Please get in touch using the 'contact' link at the top of this page.

Twitter: @lukejbird

Instagram: @lookbird

Clients include:

Penguin (UK/US), Vintage, Ebury, Faber & Faber, Simon & Schuster, Little, Brown, Editions Globe (FRA), Granta, 4th Estate, Melville House (US), Orion, Icon, Profile, Quadrille, Bonnier, Footnote, Bloomsbury, Canongate, Chelsea Green (US), Pushkin Press, Cogito, Daunt, Dead Ink, DK, Gallic, Harper Collins, Hodder Headline, Head of Zeus, iLex, Indigo Press, Influx Press, Laurence King, Octopus, New Island (IRE), John Murray Press, One World, Open Letter (US), Pantera Press (AUS), Pavilion, Scriber, Quarto, Quercus, Scribe (AUS), Thames & Hudson, Unbound, Weatherglass, Wiseink (US) and YUP.


Work featured in:

Creative Review, Eye Magazine, Monotype Recorder Magazine, Collectors Edition: Innovative Packaging and Graphics by Stuart Tolley (Thames & Hudson, 2014), Artists & Illustrators magazine, Spine magazine, Lithub, Book Industry Guild of New York’s ‘Designers’ Round Table’ Panel.