Feature: Book design

 
The shape of a pocket

The shape of a pocket

In 1960s France, Henry Cohen’s inventive photographic covers made Gallimard’s Idées series required…

 
A nose for type

A nose for type

A new publisher of ‘visual writing’ launches with this typographic reboot of an eighteenth-century…

 

The image as evidence

The career of Germano Facetti is exceptional in its range. As art director of Penguin Book covers in the…

 
Naked words

Naked words

Type-only book covers have always had a place in publication design.