Rachelle Baker has illustrated the covers of Making Our Way Home by Blair Imani (Ten Speed Press), Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb by Veronica Chambers (Dial Books), which she also illustrated the interior ...

STOCKBRIDGE — A good image on the cover of a book can describe what’s inside it, but a great image can reach out and pull you in closer than you expect. The best illustrators in this specific craft ...

What makes an outstanding book cover? The Book Jacket Designers Guild of the 1940s and ’50s defined the art as the “successful integration of concept with graphic means … and expression of the spirit ...

The idiom “don’t judge a book by its cover” doesn’t hold up for a Somerville artist who hopes readers will critique each and every exterior. “ I fully support judging a book by its cover,” said ...

Romance novels thrive on familiarity and the promise of a happily ever after (or a happy for now), and their covers likewise play to readers’ expectations. A mystical object surrounded by vining ...

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 ...

15.25 x 14 in. (38.7 x 35.6 cm.) Hector Garrido is an American book cover illustrator. He illustrated numerous science fiction, horror and adventure book covers, including all the covers for the ...

Cardiff University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. “What use is a book,” asked Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “without pictures or ...

The idiom “don’t judge a book by its cover” doesn’t hold up for a Somerville artist who hopes readers will critique each and every exterior. “ I fully support judging a book by its cover,” said ...