Up until a few years ago, most books in the public domain were lacking. Not lacking in words, which hadn't changed, but lacking in style, lacking in design, lacking, mostly, in the emotional bond many ...

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Especially in the realm of science literature, there was a golden age of graphic design in the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. Notable for its use of abstraction, minimalism, and geometric forms, it was a ...

In the ’60s and ’70s, the lurid, fanciful covers of science-fiction and fantasy paperbacks didn’t usually waste much time with typography. Instead, the designers put all of their efforts into ...

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 ...

There's been a lot of talk about the new (book) edition of The Great Gatsby, with its movie tie-in cover that's been dubbed terrible by some and enticing by others. But there's a whole world of ...

Fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo has dressed three of our favorite women this month. Penguin has found success with more contemporary, graphic covers in recent years, particularly the comic front of ...

Bookshops can often feel like galleries – step inside, and you're greeting with a veritable what's what of past and current graphic design trends. But while literary design styles come and go, a few ...

NEW YORK - Barnes and Noble has closed the book on an initiative aimed at bringing diversity to some classic pieces of literature. To celebrate Black History Month, the store on Fifth Avenue planned ...