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 ...

Starting with red, white, and blue-themed covers, superstar cover artist David Nakayama kicks off his "Color Block Variant ...

The COVER STORY we have for you this morning is quite literally THAT . . . a story about book covers, and their future. It's reported by Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours": They're part of our visual ...

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 ...

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 ...