Is BookTok to blame?

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Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the ...

With more and more authors taking the production of their books into their own hands, more and more of those books look... strange. That’s not a good thing for either authors or their readers. Book ...

Isaac Tobin peruses his wares in the old Seminary Co-Op bookstore at the University of Chicago. Photo: Alyssa Pointer/Chicago Tribune; Cover courtesy of Isaac Tobin After graduating from the Rhode ...

Olivia Nuzzi's beleaguered book has a cover as ambitious as its author. This book cover designer went viral on TikTok. Then his career took off In just under two years, Elisha Zepeda has turned a ...

Alexander Huls is a freelance writer who has been writing about pop culture for over five years. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, National Post, Film School Rejects and more.

Last October in New York, Designers & Books launched the Designers & Books Fair-a weekend-long celebration of the design book community. "There are so many events in the design world and so many books ...

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, ...