You might not have heard of book cover design's "7 second" test, but if you've ever wondered through a bookstore, you've undoubtedly tried it yourself. Pick up a book, glance at the front and back ...

These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing. A cover designer’s role is to interpret a book visually, reflecting what the author and publisher have achieved in the text.

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.

The book (out April 7), written with journalist Charles Fishman, is an homage to the power of inquisitiveness and how it improves us. Of the Koons design ... a different cover of “A Curious ...

The Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) has revealed its winners for the best book designs of the year in addition to a special competition for the “winner of ...

She designed covers for best sellers — her cover for Oliver Sacks’s “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” resembles a 17th-century title page ... design world.Credit...Vintage Books ...

the paperback design was tweaked “to speak to the widest possible audience,” says John Freeman, the book’s editor. Paperback The Vintage cover ditched the thin, hardcover scribble for a ...

“If it doesn’t move in the first 20-30 pages, I just leave it ... endorsements often make it to the front-cover. Therefore, when book editors send the design team a detailed brief, alongside ...

Of course, this isn’t to say that what hits the market is bad—in fact, I’d contend we’re in a golden age of book cover design, with each publishing season bringing a deluge of insanely ...