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

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 ...

From an accessible history of design to a facsimile of a super rare architecture magazine, these are the books we loved this year.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. This article is more than 6 years old. Hiring a general ...

If you love books, then you will inevitably buy some you may never read, just for their beautiful covers. But if you love book design, badly designed books, no matter how much you might want to read ...

“There was no MTV, there was no VHI, there was no Spotify,” says Aubrey Powell. Instead, there was album art. In the 1970s, designers were treated as rock stars–album cover designers, that is. “You ...

Doubleday Books Art Director Emily Mahon has been designing book covers for 20 years. After studying graphic design at Penn State, and an internship at Harper’s Bazaar, she was ready to leave the ...

Earlier this month, a side-by-side image of two magazines went viral — the magazine on the right, Boys' Life, had career advice and images of laboratory equipment, while the one on the left, Girls' ...

A dreamy patio setup expands the functional footprint of your house by making an area akin to an outdoor living room. Work the appropriate patio cover ideas into your design scheme and that alfresco ...