“Judging a Book by its Cover” is the latest exhibition from Manhattan’s Grolier Club, a private members club and society for book lovers in New York. It was founded in 1884 and is the oldest ...

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 ...

Long before Andy Warhol’s Velvet Underground album cover — you know, the one with the banana — notable visual artists had been collaborating with musicians on the literal packaging of their sound. The ...

When Little, Brown released the cover art for J.K. Rowling's forthcoming novel The Casual Vacancy earlier this month, with a snow-white, hand-lettered title draped lazily across a red jacket, it was ...

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, ...

Mark Sinclair picks his ten favourite book covers of the year, chosen for their “strong, characterful, challenging and exciting” design Has it ever been easier to design a book cover? As with most ...

When a book grabs her attention at a bookstore, Komal Seth immediately flips it open. “If it doesn’t move in the first 20-30 pages, I just leave it,” she says adding that she never judges books by ...

The announcement of the seven best entries was accompanied by a panel discussion as part of AKLF at Allen Park Three of the seven book covers nominated in the shortlist for the Oxford Bookstore Book ...

Alex Wermer-Colan received funding from the Mellon Foundation. Alex Wermer-Colan is the Managing Editor of the Programming Historian in English and the Executive Director of Philly Community Wireless.

Let's be honest — despite the saying, everyone judges a book by its cover. But what many readers may not realize is that, as reported in The Walrus, some book covers today still use unfair visual ...