“When the costume designer called and said, ‘There's a pin,’ I knew immediately what pin they were talking about.” ...

01. Understand the story first. A book cover should encapsulate the essence of the story. Before diving into the design, read ...

Writer and editor Mark Sinclair reflects on the influence that the digital world has had on our understanding of book cover design, before rounding up his favourite covers of the year Ahead of sharing ...

Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the ...

Talking Heads are revered as thoughtful art rockers. But the band's history is thorny, as explored in new book, "Burning Down ...

A good first impression is, of course, the goal: to elicit curiosity and excitement before you’ve even picked the book off a shelf. But a great cover can fortify itself in our consciousness ...

Literary tote bags—often emblazoned with the names of bookstores, the titles of classic novels, or the logo of a magazine—are ...

Authors and cover designers say there’s a lot you can glean from a book’s front. It turns out an old saying might be wrong. You can judge a book by its cover, in a sense.

Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the ...

130 years after ‘The Yellow Book’ changed book cover design, one of the most notable book covers to grab the attention of readers was for Rebecca F. Kuang’s bestseller, ‘Yellowface’.