The following year we got Penguin by Design, an illustrated history of 70 years of Penguin covers, and then, in 2007, Seven Hundred Penguins, a two-inch-thick collection of the best covers, shown ...

We reflect on Penguin Books’ formidable design history on its 90th birthday, and reveal the winners of its annual Cover Design Award This year, Penguin Books turns 90. Founded on the simple premise of ...

We are creating a new centre for design to decentralise the field as it stands now. A Golden Map by Amar Salman, 1991. Designer: Mohieddin Ellabbad; Publisher: Arab Falcon. Arabic Book Cover Archive ...

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.She ...

This week, we asked the graphic designer Paul Sahre to walk us through his design for Chuck Klosterman’s latest book, “Eating the Dinosaur,” and tell us a bit about his process.

Getting to design your own book cover is the sort of ultimately maddening power that probably shouldn’t be entrusted to vain mortals. It’s a little like getting to choose your own face.