One of my favourite book covers of this year doesn’t make my top ten, but I think it’s a great example of what can be achieved with the most fundamental elements of book cover construction – type and ...

Before a reader ever opens a book, a quiet seduction takes place. The encounter begins not with words, but with colour, texture, and form, a visual whisper from the book cover that says, come closer. ...

Book design has become more important than ever – but what makes an iconic jacket, asks Clare Thorp. A pair of eyes and red lips floating in a midnight sky above the bright lights of New York on The ...

Why is a book’s cover important? A compelling book cover stops a potential reader in their tracks. Think about the last time you grabbed some new reading material on a whim from the library or ...

The cover for Angie Thomas’s acclaimed Black Lives Matter–inspired novel, The Hate U Give, began, fittingly, as a piece of protest art. Back in 2015, Debra Cartwright, the artist who made the ...

Getting to design your own book cover is the sort of ultimately maddening power that probably shouldn’t be entrusted to vain mortals. It’s a little like getting to choose your own face. What kind of ...