She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the volumes ...

Take a genteel painting, maybe featuring a swooning woman. Add iridescent neon type for a shock to the system. And thank (or blame) Ottessa Moshfegh for getting there early. Clockwise from top left: ...

I have an intense book addiction. For a while, I used paper boxes full of books as a bed frame. You know your habit is serious when you start making furniture out of books. Book nerds like me will ...

Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent a book’s premise or main character without getting so specific that readers are left with little to imagine. A few years ago, ...

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 ...