I write about the future of books ... cover design's "7 second" test, but if you've ever wondered through a bookstore, you've undoubtedly tried it yourself. Pick up a book, glance at the front and ...

You could argue that the current renaissance in book design ... of Great Ideas – small paperback editions of classic, mostly philosophical texts. They had highly tactile covers and used bold ...

When talking about book cover design in the run-up to the Oxford Bookstore ... Over the years, she has learned how to blend her ideas seamlessly with the author and editor’s inputs, while ...

Doubleday Books Art Director ... cases I’m still finalizing a cover as it’s going to print. How much back and forth is there usually about the cover design? Do you interact with the author ...

Designing a great cover for a famous ... could tease out these ideas,” Fenwick tells Co. Design. “We essentially drew big conceptual circles around each book and looked for places where ...

Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them ... are a handful of standard template ideas that every designer can list as the ...

Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to ... But lately, another cover design trend has been popping up on this summer’s crop of beach reads: the flat woman.

survey the covers of other literary nonfiction books, and report back to her about which ones I liked, and why. The main principles of design—in books, appliances, cars, clothing, everything ...

We reflect on Penguin Books ... Cover Design Award offers a glimpse of the talent of the future. “There were very few submissions that answered the brief in a superficial way,” adds Bravery. “The ...

I became a connoisseur of those covers, and of the ... who was responsible for that design. If I’d turned the book over and read the fine print on the back, I would have seen that it was ...