Editor and writer Mark Sinclair picks his favourite book cover designs of this year, plus opens with a few reflections on industry trends that have emerged in 2022 Last year I began CR’s round-up of ...

In January, it was reported that in 2020 more than 200 million print books were sold in the UK, the first time since 2012 that number has been exceeded. Despite bookshops being closed for the majority ...

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 ...

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 ...

Book design has become more important than ever – but what makes an iconic jacket, asks Clare Thorp. A pair of eyes and red lips floating in a midnight sky above the bright lights of New York on The ...

If you’re an author wondering how to create the ideal book cover for your work, deciding between AI-generated designs and professional design services can feel challenging. The book cover is a key ...

In this guide, typographer, book designer and manga artist Rittsu Kogarasuashi, shares invaluable lessons from her career ...

“When asked to nominate the best of anything, it’s bad form to name your own work. But while I’m part of the company (Unit Editions) that published this book, I didn’t design the cover, so I’m ...

“A great cover makes you want to return to a book again and again, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 cover for The Hobbit does just that. I remember pulling it off my parents’ shelves when I was too small to ...