Natural history and wildlife artist Karen Carr originally created the painting that appears on the Almanac cover. Carr is an internationally-known paleo-artist. The fourth-generation Texan has worked on a variety of projects for museums and other facilities in the U.S. and Canada.

Graphic design is by Stroud Design of Oklahoma City. For the cover, the company combined Carr's art with graphic representations of petroglyphs found in Oklahoma's Kenton Cave. Felton Stroud served as art director on the almanac, with design and production executed by Jeff Hester and Chris Street.