They had highly tactile covers and used bold period typography to give a sense of when and where each book was coming from. The following year we got Penguin by Design, an illustrated history of ...

These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing. A cover designer’s role is to interpret a book visually, reflecting what the author and publisher have achieved in the text.

In this guide, typographer, book designer and manga artist Rittsu Kogarasuashi, shares invaluable lessons from her career ...

there’s a good reason why book covers remain a design mainstay: Apart from mere aesthetics, book covers continue to exercise a huge influence over book sales — whether for new entries into ...

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl ... I’d contend we’re in a golden age of book cover design, with each publishing season bringing a ...

the paperback design was tweaked “to speak to the widest possible audience,” says John Freeman, the book’s editor. Paperback The Vintage cover ditched the thin, hardcover scribble for a ...

Fresh from designing the covers for a set of 32 titles by Italo Calvino, Smyth offers his insights into the unique challenges in designing for a series Designing a book cover is a singular endeavour ...

The Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) has revealed its winners for the best book designs of the year in addition to a special competition for the “winner of ...

Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them. Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will ...