Especially in the realm of science literature, there was a golden age of graphic design in the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. Notable for its use of abstraction, minimalism, and geometric forms, it was a ...

In the 1950s and ’60s, book cover designers borrowed from the aesthetics of the burgeoning Op art movement, creating brightly colored geometric patterns that looked like mass-produced Bridget Rileys ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You can’t judge a book by its cover, the adage goes. Kerith McCoy Lisi can. Not the contents of the book, but the story the cover itself says. “I like the ...

The book covers look like well-worn paperbacks you’d find on a spinner rack in a secondhand shop, but these aren’t actual novels. The creased and worn covers for films like “A Quiet Place,” “Do the ...

Artist Henning M. Lederer has once again brought to life a collection of vintage book covers from the ‘60s and ‘70s by transforming their abstract designs into funky animations. This is the actually ...

The cover illustrations of the drugstore paperback pulp novel have become a lost art. But for the first several decades of the 20th century, many commercial artists created striking images using ...

In this colorful animation, German-born digital artist Henning M. Lederer sets in motion a series of obscure book covers mostly from the 1970s. Using graphics from the Montague Projects and Book ...

In The Illustrated Dust Jacket, 1920-1970, Martin Salisbury, professor of illustration at Cambridge School of Art, discusses the life and work of more than 50 artists and illustrators who created some ...