The recent shift toward figuration on book covers may reflect a broader desire for physical presence — proof of the artist’s ...

For Reed, Second Hand isn’t simply a nostalgic trip down memory lane. The unearthing of analog book covers offers an opportunity to give lesser known, but brilliantly executed, designs their due. He ...

And yes, in modern parlance, it’s more about not judging people. Looks can be deceiving and all that jazz. But many a well-meaning librarian or bookseller has encouraged readers not to judge literal ...

The phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover” sounds nice on paper, but if everyone actually followed it, publishers wouldn’t spend so much time and money creating them. And that’s not something we, ...

For decades, Chip Kidd has revolutionized the book jacket—giving Jurassic Park its iconic T-Rex silhouette, The Secret History its Greek statue, and 1Q84 its ghostly, translucent type. Now, for the ...

Bena Sareen wins the 11th Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize for designing the jacket of Amitava Kumar's 'My Beloved Life'.

Renowned designer Bena Sareen has won the 11th edition of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize for her cover design of My ...

Carin Goldberg, a graphic designer whose pathbreaking work included covers for Madonna’s first album and thousands of books, including a series of Kurt Vonnegut paperbacks that reinvigorated the ...

We’re all told that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but most of us do! In fact, judging a book by its cover might not be such a bad thing. A cover can help readers get a sense of what a book ...

Designer Bena Sareen has been announced the winner of the 11th edition of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize for creating ...