"It's said that you can't judge a book by its cover. George Salter, a legendary figure in the field of book design, never subscribed to this belief. For more than forty years, his beautifully drawn ...

The German visual artists who worked during the Weimar Republic — among them George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and Otto Dix — are celebrated the world over for their stylistic inventions and brutal critiques ...

In today's maximum-impact market, with bold colors and graphics plastering book jackets of all sorts, it's refreshing to peruse this book, which features the work of George Salter, one of the most ...

How do you classify book jacket design? As art or advertising? The answer, it seems, is somewhere in between. Of course, illustrators create arresting images to draw readers, but they also want ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. This article is more than 6 years old. Hiring a general ...