Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent ... skin, features, and jewelry make the image pop; it’s cartoonish but not in an overly girly way.

I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. You might not have heard of book cover design's "7 second" test, but if you've ever wondered through a bookstore, you've ...

She’d been tasked with designing the book covers for the English translations of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel, My Struggle—and she’d landed on a concept to tie the ...