The Book Review’s art director on the edgiest, catchiest, most creative book jackets of the year. Credit... Supported by By Matt Dorfman Recently, a friend who works outside of publishing described ...

Artist Brett Bean shares his process for creating cover art when the deadline was yesterday.

What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has the power to ...

Cover to Cover, a new book from Penguin Classics, is the closest I can get to looking at pornography in the office. I’ve stared at it for hours, flipping back and forth between covers I’ve passed a ...

Popular author, writer and librarian Dumebi Ezar Ehigiator, in an interview with Pulse speaks on why book cover design should be taken more seriously. She said: "I think covers are extremely important ...

Fantasy fiction is thriving – and so its visual language. Here, art director Beci Kelly shares her tips for standing out in a rapidly growing market Fantasy publishing is no longer a niche corner of ...

This project was to re-design a classic novel. The inspiration behind the Animal Farm cover derived from the controversial topics brought up throughout the book. The collage on the cover is composed ...

Every bookshop shelf tells the same visual story now. Romance, fantasy, literary fiction: the covers blur into one another, shaped by algorithms, stock imagery, and the tyranny of the thumbnail.