Media

Jessica Helfand|Essays

Design Competition as Bake-Off

The idea of book design rendered as a global free-for-all likens the act of cover design to a giant bake-off. But books are not brownies, and design, like literature, is not a sweet shop.

Ken Gordon|Essays

J. D. Salinger: A Cover Story

Let’s judge a book—Franny and Zooey, by the late J.D. Salinger—by its cover.

Eric Holzenberg|Essays

The Aesthetic Movement

The role of printing in the Aesthetic Movement.

Kathleen Meaney|Essays

Co-Teaching with Eustace Tilley

What the New Yorker can teach us about understanding images

Jade Doskow|Books

Lost Utopias

Lost Utopias documents the remains of World’s Fair sites.

Ken Gordon|Essays

Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, a Novel… with a Short, Useful Illustration of Empathic Design

That’s right: Philip Roth, designer manqué!

The Editors|Competitions

Deadline Approaching

Just one week left to enter 50 Books | 50 Covers competition!

The AIGA Design Educators Community|Books

Required Reading

AIGA’s Design Educators Community list their must-have books for design inspiration for 2017

The Editors|Competitions

50 Books | 50 Covers: Jurors Announced

We are thrilled to announce the judges for this year’s 50 Books | 50 Covers competition.

The Editors|Competitions

50 Books | 50 Covers: Jurors Announced

We are thrilled to announce the judges for this year’s 50 Books | 50 Covers competition.

Massimo Pitis|Interviews

It’s A Mag World

Massimo Pitis chats with Jeremy Leslie of Mag Culture about magazines and the never-ending story of printed matter.

Michael Bierut|Audio

S1E11: Steve Duenes

Steve Duenes is an Assistant Editor at The New York Times who oversees a team of visual journalists.