Look at the books, look how they shine for you; or, why more and more books are yellow
You, Reader, are a regular bookstore-goer. You are wont to traipse into strange rooms and begin caressing books you don’t yet own. You flip through physical pages, read some words… Read more »
Hail & Farewell: Paul Bacon, legendary book designer and creator of the “Big Book Look”
The book designer Paul Bacon died last week in Fishkill, NY. He was ninety-one years old. Though Bacon illustrated a number of beautiful jazz album covers, he was better known… Read more »
What’s inside a book cover? More than just pages
For those of you hapless enough to have missed The Morgan Library’s exhibition From Gatsby to Garb that ended this weekend, it was a doozy. The exhibition pulled a selection of… Read more »
Kafka’s Metamorphosis transforms once again
In 2011, the designer Peter Mendelsund made waves with his stunning series of covers for Franz Kafka. Published in new editions by Schocken, the covers were a radical departure from… Read more »
The art of cover design at Random House
In a new video created for the Inside Random House series, which takes viewers behind the scenes at the publisher’s offices, book designers explain their creative processes and the unique… Read more »