Book Design

In 2010, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church w...

Examinations of the use of diagrams, symbols etc. found as commentary in medieval texts. In our electronic age, we are accustomed to the use of ic...

Seasoned designer Debbie Berne presents an accessible introduction to book design for authors, editors, and other book people.   Design is central ...

Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for best biography or critical book related to crime fiction! A lavish full-colour celebration of...

In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world t...

Why does a book look and feel the way it does? What can it tell us about the circumstances of its creation? This is a fascinating exploration of th...

A visual history of the spaceships, alien landscapes, cryptozoology, and imagined industrial machinery of 1970s paperback sci-fi artIn the 1970s, m...

Take your design work to the next level with Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Third Edition), the essential easy-to-...

The mid-20th century was one of the most popular, collectable and dynamic periods of international design. Drawing on the inventive style of the e...

A revelatory glimpse into the passions and obsessions of 60 visionary artists through the medium of their personal sketchbooks, treatises, storyboo...

How do you clothe a book?In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket from t...

The year 2023 sees the 150th anniversary of the death of William Harry Rogers. Rogers was one of the finest artist-designers of the Victorian perio...

PRINTABLE is a stunning showcase of familiar and innovative methods that elevate printed matter for branding and beyond. In an increasingly digita...

A lavishly illustrated, large-format reference book highlighting the work of 101 essential children’s illustrators The illustrated children’s b...

The story of the illustrated book from the earliest printed books to the present day, told through the collections of the V&A’s National Art Li...

Throughout the ages, every culture has created myths and legends which recount the great deeds of its heroes and their epic struggles with larger-t...

A collection of 100 postcards, each with a different iconic Penguin Classic cover, in a beautifully designed boxSince its launch with The Odyssey i...

What exactly is a book? This wildly inventive and thought-provoking volume asks that question of more than 30 of today's top creative visionaries, ...

This unique history brings together more than 150 spectacular objects from the National Art Library's collection of literature, prints, drawings an...

From scrolls and sheets of papyrus to elaborate and expensive codices to the mass press-printed volumes as we know them today, books have come a lo...

Katherine Soutar has provided the cover illustrations for the vast majority of books in The History Press’ popular Folk Tales series. This new coll...