You might not have heard of book cover design's "7 second" test, but if you've ever wondered through a bookstore, you've undoubtedly tried it yourself. Pick up a book, glance at the front and back ...

Decorated edges — sprayed bright colors, stenciled with ornate imagery — have taken the publishing industry by storm.

In the same way that subgenres wax and wane in popularity, the look of the books is continually evolving. PW spoke with art and editorial pros about new trends on and under the covers. Retro ranchers ...

And once the book is published, many of those people would remember that they had a say in the cover choice, and maybe there’s a higher chance of purchase because of that. Everybody wins.

The books I couldn’t seem to get out of my head this year feel the opposite, in many ways, of how the year felt. This list, then, is a list filled with color, with inspiration, with excitement ...

The styling Oprah’s 111th book club pick features type in a shade of yellow that you’ll also see on the cover of the forthcoming “ Happiness & Love,” among others.

Here are some of the best book covers of 2023 that you did not see—with insight directly from the designers who created them. The version that ended up being scrapped is on left, the final ...

Back Bay Books The patient zero of flat women might be Bernadette, the heroine and cover star of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple, from 2012. On that cover, a woman’s face floats ...

Carin Goldberg, a celebrated graphic designer who brought an inventive postmodern sensibility to book and album covers, died on Jan. 19 at her home in Stanfordville, N.Y., in Dutchess County.

I’ve been a book designer since the 1990s, working with some of Australia’s and the United Kingdom’s leading publishers. These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing.