D*MN THIS IS FUN: your summer design reads

Being featured on Coverjunkie.com means you’re among the world’s top 5% most creative magazine covers. Now imagine making the cut for this hot list of 2025’s best cover designs. 2025 was a wildly creative year—here the results of the poll. The Top Covers of 2025 →

Harper’s Bazaar Taiwan just dropped their new cover for their art edition (see image at the end). A Barbara Kruger piece, where she’s pushing the traditional boundaries between art and activism. As a longtime admirer of her work, I’d love to feature this latest cover alongside a few iconic classics from my personal collection.

I’ve selected 25 of the most creative magazine covers of 2025 to kick things off with fresh energy. A visual treat celebrating the boldest, smartest, and most surprising designs of the year (so far).

An honor to be asked by Vogue Portugal to reflect on one of design’s strongest visual weapons: lips. They’re sensitive, seductive, expressive, and dangerous. They symbolize optimism and hint at life itself. Here’s the full story, where Vogue asked for my reflection on it from a designer’s perspective.

When Coverjunkie first encountered this cover, the reaction was one of pure flabbergasted disbelief. Striking, provocative, and impossible to ignore, the image quickly sparked debate, viewed more than one million times on Coverjunkies’ Instagram.

So great to speak with you, Fer! First, a quick introduction: you’re 43, Madrid-born, and a dream-driven art director, illustrator, and visual storyteller. Your work spans iconic covers for Forbes, GQ, Vanity Fair, and more — all crafted with heart, humor, and unmistakable hustle.

Dear design lovers, meet artist, creative director Lisa Naftolin. Her lettering has a rare kind of empathy—a delicate, almost breakable beauty that lingers. I was so moved by her approach that I had to learn more.