Go ahead, judge that book by its cover. Book cover designers picked the best book covers of 2025 and told us what makes them so great.

As a kid, Matt Stevens and his neighbor used to hunker down and get set up for a game of flick football. Stevens was always the Cowboys. His neighbor was always the Steelers. Only problem was ...

MANILA, Philippines — Do not judge a book by its cover, you are often told. Well, this is true when it comes to judging people you are meeting for the first time. But when it comes to books ...

Let’s play a game. Imagine a book cover emblazoned with an illustrated figure, or two. Their faces are obscured, either by sunglasses or a brushstroke. Or maybe there’s nothing at all – a ...

Marvel Studios will release new "Art of" books for Loki and Captain America: Brave New World later this year, and we now have ...

Look at Leonardo da Vinci and so many others. And at home, Satyajit Ray, who was a film maker, writer, illustrator, and book cover designer! It was serendipity, really. I had a professor (I ...

Devangana Dash, winner of 2025 Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize. Devangana Dash is a book designer, art director and educator, and the most recent winner of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize.