You know the phrase: Don't judge a book by its cover. And yes, in modern parlance, it’s more about not judging people. Looks ...

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 ...

Take a genteel painting, maybe featuring a swooning woman. Add iridescent neon type for a shock to the system. And thank (or blame) Ottessa Moshfegh for getting there early. Clockwise from top left: ...

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 ...

Here’s a hot take. Publishing beautiful books has never mattered more than now. Gorgeous covers, gilded edges, swirly endpapers and sharp illustrations have long been ways to give the words inside ...

Most videos on book cover designer Elisha Zepeda’s TikTok account have a similar format: he gets an assignment from a publisher, crafts several options, gets feedback, makes some tweaks, and, finally, ...

Jenny Grigg works in a research partnership with Giramondo Publishing. Primary school students have been reading TikTok sensation Icebreaker, an enemies-to-lovers romance about a figure skater and an ...

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 ...