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Fresh from designing the covers for a set of 32 titles by Italo Calvino, Smyth offers his insights into the unique challenges in designing for a series Designing a book cover is a singular endeavour ...

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Doubleday Books Art Director Emily Mahon has been designing book covers for 20 years. After studying graphic design at Penn State, and an internship at Harper’s Bazaar, she was ready to leave the ...

Aimed at aspiring designers and illustrators with less than a year’s industry experience, the brief pays homage to the publisher’s founding design principles To celebrate 90 years of Penguin, the ...

It's no surprise that many readers consider a job in book publishing to be one of the most covetable careers. Within publishing, there are widely recognized positions — like that of a book editor or ...

The paperback pulp romance—birthed in the 1930s, but arguably at its height during the murky cultural soup of postwar America—exists at a unique intersection of smut and chastity. Though the covers of ...