And according to dozens of publishers and designers, it’s the platonic ideal for book covers relating to Africa ... pretty stunning illustration of how design—even when meant well—can ...

Last week, Africa Is a Country, a blog that documents and skewers Western misconceptions of Africa, ran a fascinating story about book design. It posted a collage of 36 covers of books that ...

Vier Susters is published by Penguin and the cover was designed by Russell Stark - his second win in this competition. The Africa Book and Design Festival also came on board, and gave a prize for ...

it was to design book jackets.” His first cover came about by accident after a friend’s father asked him to illustrate a 1950 book about searching for chimpanzees in Africa called “Chimp on ...

Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to ... But lately, another cover design trend has been popping up on this summer’s crop of beach reads: the flat woman.

I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. You might not have heard of book cover design's "7 second" test, but if you've ever wondered through a bookstore, you've ...

Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them. Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will ...

How do book covers communicate with an audience? How do designers and publishers make their decisions? And how can it go wrong like this? I’ve been a book designer since the 1990s, working with ...