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 ...

In 2012, Jenny Volvovski launched From Cover to Cover—a personal project in which she sought to design a cover for every single book she read. And, well, they were surprisingly brilliant, and have ...

Bartman: Reading books is one of the great joys of my life, and interpreting a book into visual language that, in some way, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...