You do judge a book by its cover. From font choices to cover design — here's the psychology and marketing behind what makes a ...

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the volumes ...

“This cover feels simultaneously classic and entirely new. It’s slightly reminiscent of 1970s science fiction covers (albeit much more restrained), and yet I’ve never seen anything quite like it. That ...

Readers with a keen eye for book cover design are likely to associate uniform jacket schemes primarily with boutique literary publishers—among them Archipelago Books, Fitzcarraldo Editions, McNally ...

Models embracing in “the clinch” are long gone, replaced by the vector couple. Where have all the torsos gone? The photorealistic “clinch cover,” featuring lovers mid-embrace, is a critically ...

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 ...

As a book jacket designer for respected U.S. publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Chip Kidd has worked with authors from Cormac McCarthy to Michael Crichton to Haruki Murakami. He is also a twice-published ...

This is why we don’t trust algorithms to design hardcovers. By Bruce Handy The internet has been having fun of late with DALL-E Mini, newly renamed craiyon, an A.I. program that generates images in ...

Some of the most common publishers of this pulp horror were Zebra, Tor and Signet. But who painted them? That answer isn’t ...

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 ...

A suited man rides an escalator into the sky. At its top the escalator disappears into an enormous paper bag, which contains a bendy straw, a bow tie, a pint of milk, and huge kernels of popcorn. I ...