Designing book covers is famously difficult. It's so hard we have an entire idiom that asks us not to judge the worth of something just because its cover turned out really, really ugly. From our ...

Remember when you were in elementary school and you had to spend part of your first day covering all of your books with paper grocery bags? Of course, the best part was decorating them once they were ...

What makes an outstanding book cover? The Book Jacket Designers Guild of the 1940s and ’50s defined the art as the “successful integration of concept with graphic means … and expression of the spirit ...

At its bluntest and most general, the current directive in book design is that covers be, above all else, legible. So that when they’re viewed online (which, for many people buying books, means Amazon ...

Today, many at-home libraries look a lot different than they did just a decade ago. Books with "sprayed edges" have their page edges painted, which adds a bold pop of color or reveals an illustration ...

We are cautioned to avoid judging a book by its cover, yet that is precisely what publishers hope we will do. Dust jacket illustration, which came into its own in the 1920s, has long deserved ...

At the peak of the COVID-19 crisis in Manhattan, ambulance sirens wailed all day long outside the two-bedroom apartment where Stefanie Trilling lives with her husband, two children, aged 5 ½ and 2, ...