What makes you pick up a book you’ve never heard of? Is it the title, the author’s name, or the promise of an intriguing story? More often than not, it’s the cover—a single image that has the power to ...

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Between the angular cuts of the typography, the searing red letterforms, and the torn wallpaper, the cover of Our Cut of Salt ...

Most videos on book cover designer Elisha Zepeda’s TikTok account have a similar format: he gets an assignment from a publisher, crafts several options, gets feedback, makes some tweaks, and, finally, ...

A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted him and stayed with him this year. A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted ...

Redesign? Relaunch? Regret? Take a look at the ways publishers aimed to seduce new audiences by changing up the covers of notable books. By Scott Heller and Miguel Salazar “You never get a second ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Cover design personalization may be the next frontier as books evolve across digital, print and audio. If you want to write a book, you ...

Meet Me Here co-host Katie Campbell recently interviewed Elisha Zepeda, book cover designer at Penguin Press. You know the phrase: Don't judge a book by its cover. And yes, in modern parlance, it’s ...

A design lab class led a graphic design student to an unexpected opportunity: designing a book cover for a Nebraska author. Ellie Maxwell, a senior graphic design major, turned a classroom assignment ...

With as much of an overload of book and publishing awards programs as there is in the world’s markets, we normally must forgo looking at contests that involve aspirational, nonprofessional work—not ...