Feature: Book design
To have and to hold
The challenges of digital publishing have galvanised a new spirit in book design and production. Is it…
In the right place
In this extract from his book, Gerald Cinamon explains how he brought integrated book design to Penguin…
Told in pictures
Wordless picturebooks form a corner of children’s literature in which illustrators and artists tell…
A nose for type
A new publisher of ‘visual writing’ launches with this typographic reboot of an eighteenth-century…
The shape of a pocket
In 1960s France, Henry Cohen’s inventive photographic covers made Gallimard’s Idées series required…
The producer as author
For Bruce Mau, graphic design is a way of investigating ethical, cultural and philisophical issues
Penguin crime
Romek Marber’s 1960s paperback identity is a landmark of independent British design
The image as evidence
The career of Germano Facetti is exceptional in its range. As art director of Penguin Book covers in the…
Permanent innovation
With his ‘livre objets’ for the French book clubs, Pierre Faucheux invented a new genre
Naked words
Type-only book covers – whether deliberately austere, functional … or shouting loud from the shelves –…