Art historian Alka Pande is multi-tasking. When talking about book cover design in the run-up to the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize announcement anytime this month, she cuts out to handle something ...

Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent a book’s premise or main character without getting so specific that readers are left with little to imagine. A few years ago, ...

Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them. Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the ...

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In this guide, typographer, book designer and manga artist Rittsu Kogarasuashi, shares invaluable lessons from her career ...

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 ...

Writer and editor Mark Sinclair reflects on the influence that the digital world has had on our understanding of book cover design, before rounding up his favourite covers of the year Ahead of sharing ...