Rittsu’s top 14 tips will guide you toward stunning results and help you elevate your book cover designs to new heights. For ...

In the early 1980s, she started her own design firm, working primarily on book covers. In 1982, Warner Bros. Records called to ask whether she was interested in designing an album cover for a ...

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 ...

Paul Bacon’s name may be unfamiliar, but anyone who has browsed the bestseller racks over the last 60 years knows his work. If a book cover is a canvas, Bacon was its Matisse or Dali, who used ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carin Goldberg, a celebrated graphic designer who brought an inventive postmodern sensibility to book and album covers, died on Jan. 19 at her home in Stanfordville, N.Y., in Dutchess County.She ...

Before long, the new designer had an actual design job. Today, some 15 years later, Mendelsund's an associate art director at Knopf, having designed around 600 covers. The Many Styles of Peter ...

Getting to design your own book cover is the sort of ultimately maddening power that probably shouldn’t be entrusted to vain mortals. It’s a little like getting to choose your own face.