IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Design for a book jacket. Cover ...

The German visual artists who worked during the Weimar Republic — among them George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and Otto Dix — are celebrated the world over for their stylistic inventions and brutal critiques ...

"It's said that you can't judge a book by its cover. George Salter, a legendary figure in the field of book design, never subscribed to this belief. For more than forty years, his beautifully drawn ...

In today's maximum-impact market, with bold colors and graphics plastering book jackets of all sorts, it's refreshing to peruse this book, which features the work of George Salter, one of the most ...

Welcome to Cover Story, a new PW column that looks at the art and science of book-jacket design, and the evolution from early concept to finished product. First up: The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 ...

The Illustrated Dust Jacket, 1920-1970 chronicles the rise of the book dust jacket from disposable object to a creative platform for publishing design. “In view of its origins as a plain protection to ...

How do you classify book jacket design? As art or advertising? The answer, it seems, is somewhere in between. Of course, illustrators create arresting images to draw readers, but they also want ...