Doubleday Books Art Director Emily Mahon has been designing book covers for 20 years. After studying graphic design at Penn State, and an internship at Harper’s Bazaar, she was ready to leave ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. You might not have heard of book cover design's "7 second ...

Devangana Dash is a book designer, art director and educator, and the most recent winner of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize. She won the prize for designing Conversations with Aurangzeb ...

Keith Hayes, who designed the Bernadette cover for publisher Little, Brown, told me via email that he didn’t have any intention of using the flat design style or starting a trend when he ...

At first controversial, ‘The Yellow Book’ method caught on, and by the early 20th century book cover design was an established art form. Two versions of the Yellow Book Wikimedia.

Jenny Grigg is the talented book designer behind The Luminaries and Gerald Murnane’s last book. We asked her to explain how covers communicate – and how they can fall short.