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 ...

The visual language has to perform a balancing act between Western templates, Indian audiences, local aesthetics and market ...

And yes, in modern parlance, it’s more about not judging people. Looks can be deceiving and all that jazz. But many a well-meaning librarian or bookseller has encouraged readers not to judge literal ...

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the volumes ...

New AI tools like Nano Banana Pro are enabling authors and publishers to create book covers with rich textures, precise composition, and professional print quality, rivaling traditionally commissioned ...

An expanding set of expert resources is changing how authors, marketers, and designers use AI to produce book covers and other visuals, focusing on clear task breakdowns, genre-specific templates, and ...

She was in the vanguard of female designers who looked to the past to upend the cool modernism of the ’70s with a style that became prominent in the ’80s. By Penelope Green Carin Goldberg, a ...