In a year brimming with beautiful jacket art, these books stood out. Credit... Supported by By Matt Dorfman Matt Dorfman is a designer, illustrator and the art director of the Book Review. If an ...

A great cover is the best advertisement for a comic book, drawing readers in to explore the story within. Sometimes a fantastic cover reflects the impactful story inside, creating a perfect visual ...

Monique Aimee, an illustrator who has worked on covers for Timothy Janovsky and Casey McQuiston, said the key to this pared-back style is communicating the novel’s sensibility — earnest but ...

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 ...

In the 19th century, advances in book-binding birthed the first printed, mass-produced covers, designed to tout and titillate on a much broader scale than the bespoke finishes of yore.

The King of the Monsters is stomping into comic book shops. IDW's "Godzilla" #1, written by Tim Seeley with art by Nikola Čižmešija, hits shelves soon. And we've got the reveal of an exclusive ...

The point of a book cover is to get someone to pick up the book and read the back. It’s like a movie trailer. The best ones give you just a glimpse into the world, enough so that you want to pay ...

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 is going to be about, or pique their interest in the story.

I’ve been a book designer since the 1990s, working with some of Australia’s and the United Kingdom’s leading publishers. These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing.