For the Jan. 21, 2018, TIME cover on the showdown between President Trump and Nancy Pelosi's Democrats, we assigned Chicago-based artist Jason Seiler, a classically trained oil painter who also works digitally, to create an...

For the Oct. 15, 2018, TIME cover on the impact of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony and the significance of her voice, we used Ford's words to create her portrait. As Haley Sweetland Edwards writes in...

For the cover of the Sept. 3, 2018, issue of TIME, readers might notice something familiar. TIME collaborator Tim O'Brien, an artist who has been creating TIME covers for nearly 30 years, has added the...

'I felt the storm metaphor was as relevant as ever'

For the Aug. 28 issue of TIME on hate in America we turned to artist Edel Rodriguez to create a cover to capture the aftermath of the Charlottesville tragedy. With his bold, graphic approach, Rodriguez...

There are more than 4,800 "real" covers of TIME magazine that have been designed over the past 94 years. That’s certainly a lot of history, but it may well be dwarfed by all of the...