Book Design

Rejected Covers is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and...

This is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and inspiratio...

This is part of an ongoing series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and inspiratio...

Chip Kidd is probably the world's most famous book designer. His work with Knopf Doubleday includes such classic covers as "Jurassic Park", "1Q84" and...

This is part of a new series on rejected book cover designs, in which we invite cover artists to reveal some of the rejected ideas and inspirations be...

We examine the role of the picture book in introducing children to the visual arts as well as language, and consider important issues such as the appropriateness of certain subjects and styles of illustration for children.

When we began to discuss the book cover for our latest Igniter release, Satan Is Real, we all agreed there's no need to design a cover from scratch when the perfect cover image was already created 50 years ago. To reinterpret this one would be a sin (yeah, I said it).

Tough guys with guns and sexy femme fatales, menace in the shadows and danger in the light, right hooks, and double crosses and deadly embraces: If you can imagine it appearing on a film noir movie poster or an old paperback cover, it's the sort of thing we love.

We know, we know. We aren't supposed to judge books by their covers. But these current and upcoming book covers appeared so intriguing that we couldn'...

Book lovers, you can exhale. The printed, bound book has been given a stay of execution by an unlikely source: the design community. In this Kindle-an...

Following our first round of the best book covers of 2010, we have another 25 outstanding covers from 2010.

It is in the nature of small presses to appear, fill a certain need--often political or cultural in nature--and then vanish.

Alvin Lustig was a pioneer of the American mid-Century design revolution, reaching the peak of his incredible career in the early 1950s just as the ri...

In an age when it feels like all the teen covers are dedicated to giving us variations on the same theme, it's refreshing to consider that some artist...

Checkout this great cover gallery archiving over 150 covers of Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece "Lolita."...

Stephenie Meyer's blockbuster Twilight series is to be republished this Christmas with a new white jacket design....

I recently asked my online friends how they choose their next book to read. Authors, take note of what drives readers to pick up your book. What can you learn from these responses?

Ever wondered what it takes to create a book cover? In this video, the whole process is compressed into two minutes, and we get to see every little de...