The Bookseller's creative editor Danny Arter on how the rise of the ‘book as object’ has coincided with a print renaissance and why its pioneers... Read more
From ‘designing for backlist’ and deftly on to this year’s resurgence of golden age crime fiction, the classic crime genre is proving as popular as... Read more
The importance of spine-out books If you wander through your local bookshop, past the table displays of new releases and beyond the bestsellers shouting for... Read more
How mass market design is influencing literary fiction I love designing literary fiction. It is the goal of many designers to create that covetable book... Read more
Stuart Bache is managing designer at HarperCollins. Each year, he compiles a selection of his favourite book jackets from the past twelve months. This time,... Read more
The government has given publishers just three months to comply with new legislation which industry figures have warned threatens to decimate illustrated publishing, refusing requests for... Read more
Students from the University of London and the University of the Arts London have won prizes at this year’s Penguin Random House cover design awards.... Read more
Tony Brook and Patricia Finegan founded Spin in 1992 as a design studio working across physical and digital. Spin’s projects encompass typography, identities, art direction... Read more
The Academy of British Cover Design (ABCD) last week (5th March) revealed the winners of its second cover design competition. Headed by publication designers Jamie... Read more
