Lagos Biennial I–V: The Making of an African Capital of Culture sits within a 7-kilogram concrete case.

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Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the ...

With more and more authors taking the production of their books into their own hands, more and more of those books look... strange. That’s not a good thing for either authors or their readers. Book ...

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 ...

The visual language has to perform a balancing act between Western templates, Indian audiences, local aesthetics and market ...

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, ...

I own a book that I’ve read into but never really read. Still, I hang onto it. It’s a 1907 edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with a fire-engine-red cover out of which ...

January is a time of resolutions–and while most of them tend not to last, reading more is a resolution that pays dividends. We asked a slew of design leaders for the best books they read in 2018, and ...