Kidd, an associate art director at publisher Alfred A. Knopf, has designed book covers for the past 25 years for authors like Cormac McCarthy, John Updike, David Sedaris and Michael Crichton.

The Book Review’s art director picks his favorite covers from a year that reminded him of the joys of picking up a book and holding it in his hands. By Matt Dorfman I spent more time browsing in ...

About Chip Kidd. Chip Kidd's book jacket designs spawned a revolution in the art of American book packaging. A Chip Kidd cover is unexpected, nonformulaic and perfectly right for the text within ...

Paperback Designed by Alex Merto, Picador’s art director, the new cover presents Justin Metz’s overhead illustration of a forest from the perspective of a flying drone. Unlike the hardcover ...

Indeed, many of the best book covers rival the best print ads when it comes to design ingenuity. We may only be a couple of months into 2025, but we've already seen some stunning book covers.

When sacred, mixed-media artist Jill Metz started her depiction of St. Monica, she didn’t know it would someday grace the cover of a book or be named, Tears of the Heart.

Getting to design your own book cover is the sort of ultimately maddening power that probably shouldn’t be entrusted to vain mortals. It’s a little like getting to choose your own face.