Mark Sinclair picks his ten favourite book covers of the year, chosen for their “strong, characterful, challenging and ...

Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them. Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Evidently, the art of designing book covers cannot merely be left to pleasing aesthetics as the devil is in the detail — and the technicalities involved Rhea Gupte was sought out by writer Karuna ...

Writer and editor Mark Sinclair reflects on the influence that the digital world has had on our understanding of book cover design, before rounding up his favourite covers of the year Ahead of sharing ...

When a book grabs her attention at a bookstore, Komal Seth immediately flips it open. “If it doesn’t move in the first 20-30 pages, I just leave it,” she says adding that she never judges books by ...

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. What kind of ...