The phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover” sounds nice on paper, but if everyone actually followed it, publishers wouldn’t ...

Check out the shortlisted entries for this year's fantasy theme.

And yes, in modern parlance, it’s more about not judging people. Looks can be deceiving and all that jazz. But many a well-meaning librarian or bookseller has encouraged readers not to judge literal ...

There’s one big thing about Rodrigo Corral that does not initially make sense: The book cover maestro does not have a signature style. “A thing that we repeat often in the studio is, ‘Let’s be careful ...

What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has the power to ...

If you love books, then you will inevitably buy some you may never read, just for their beautiful covers. But if you love book design, badly designed books, no matter how much you might want to read ...

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 ...

From fashion runways to the covers of books, a trendy "naive" aesthetic is ditching polished perfection for the deliberate ...

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 ...