A lousy or insipid cover won’t turn me off from reading a good book, but a great wrapper heightens my appreciation of the book as an object. And a superb jacket -- one that brilliantly conveys what the book is about in a single ...READ»
Pentagram has unveiled lovely new covers for seven Vladimir Nabokov titles. Far from the somber, desolate images that gum up many of Nabokov’s books -- something we’ve never understood, given the playfulness of his prose -- ...READ»
Social media -- "friends," "likes," status updates, check-ins -- forces us to live in a perpetual present tense with no long-term memory. Tweets that get pushed down too far into the past get lost; god knows what happens to Facebook ...READ»
Film-edition books are always awful. As much as we love Vanessa Redgrave, we don’t want to look at her gauzy face every time we reach for Mrs. Dalloway. Which makes Penguin’s latest copy of The Little Red Riding Hood a sort of ...READ»
People love to jaw about the so-called "death of print" brought on by the Internet, but from where we're sitting, book design has never been more interesting. And Maria Fischer's "Traumgedanken" ("Thoughts on Dreams") goes one step ...READ»
Infographic nerds: Put away your iPad and prepare to slobber all over your desk. Edward Tufte is auctioning off rare books from his private library.
Tufte, for people who don’t worship at the altar of the Y-axis, is the high ...READ»
Rotterdam designer Richard Hutten produces a stamp-sized book for the Dutch postal service. UPDATE: Not to be outdone, the USPS releases Abstract Expressionism stamps!READ»
High school and college students are welcome to participate in the second annual Illustrator's competition. The winners will receive a total of $1850 in scholarships from Tate Publishing.READ»
