The best design podcast around—and one of the best podcasts, period—is Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible. On it he covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history of ...

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 ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Wherever you stand on the future of the book – doomed to oblivion by the Kindle, or an indestructible part of our cultural life – ...

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 ...

Writer and editor Mark Sinclair reflects on the influence that the digital world has had on our understanding of book cover design, before rounding up his favourite covers of the year Ahead of sharing ...

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 ...

When Penguin Modern Classics decided to bring back its Crime and Espionage series, one design feature was surely inevitable. For Penguin readers, crime is synonymous with green. The colour has been a ...

Penguin Random House UK has announced the winners of this year’s Cover Design Award, which were chosen from over 1,500 entries. The award aims to offer designers the opportunity to experience a ...

The Good Book Appreciation Society (GBAS), a Facebook group that has won a large following of book-lovers, has concluded its prizes for book-cover design and announced the winners. The winner for best ...