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Mark Sinclair picks his ten favourite book covers of the year, chosen for their “strong, characterful, challenging and exciting” design Has it ever been easier to design a book cover? As with most ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Book covers are increasingly featuring childlike sketches, doodles and crayon marks — a “naive design” trend that ...

Despite a steady rise in the popularity of e-books and a surge in ownership of electronic readers and tablets, real dead-tree paper books are not about the exit the scene any time soon. And while most ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. Jul 19, 2019, 11:30am EDT Jul 19, 2019, 06:11pm EDT This ...

Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent a book’s premise or main character without getting so specific that readers are left with little to imagine. A few years ago, ...

All forms of design serve to communicate meaning in some way, but every genre has to be handled differently, case by case. And so, just like how packaging and product design live in different worlds ...

Cover to Cover, a new book from Penguin Classics, is the closest I can get to looking at pornography in the office. I’ve stared at it for hours, flipping back and forth between covers I’ve passed a ...