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 ...
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 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. Jul 19, 2019, 11:30am EDT Jul 19, 2019, 06:11pm EDT This ...
Primary school students have been reading TikTok sensation Icebr­eaker, an enemies-to-lovers romance about a figure skater and an ice-hockey player. The cartoon cover features a ponytailed girl (who ...
What’s the most important tool in the book designer’s arsenal? These days, for most designers, you’d assume it’s the Adobe Creative Suite. But Massimo Vignelli isn’t most designers, and as we see in ...
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 ...