Category: Design

May 5, 2014

Design Winners from the 2014 New York Book Show!

We were very excited to hear that four of our books were winners in the 2014 New York Book Show. Sponsored by the Book Industry Guild of New York, the award honors, and celebrates excellence in book production and design....

March 6, 2014

Designing Mark C. Taylor's "Recovering Place"

The following post is by Lisa Hamm, a senior designer at Columbia University Press, who worked with Mark C. Taylor on his new book Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill: I received an e-mail from Mark Taylor asking if we...

November 4, 2013

Chang Jae Lee on Book Design and Korean Photography

Chang Jae Lee, of our very talented designers, was recently interviewed by Asian Global Impact. In the interview, Chang Jae revealed the process that goes into selecting the appropriate image and design for a book as well as discussing some...

February 7, 2013

Design Awards for Let the Meatballs Rest and LoveKnowledge

Congratulations to our design department for being selected by jurors of Association of American University Press’s Book, Jacket, and Journal Show as the very best examples … of excellent design.” The winners included Let the Meatballs Rest: And Other Stories...

July 20, 2012

The Evolution of a Cover — Julia Kushnirsky on "Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City"

Earlier this week we featured the cover for Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City. In the following post, Julia Kushnirsky, the book’s designer, describes the thinking behind this beautifully evocative cover: Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City is...

July 17, 2012

Featured Cover of the Week: Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City

Our featured cover this week is from Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, by Dung Kai-cheung. The cover was designed by Julia Kushnirsky.

July 10, 2012

Featured Cover of the Week: Hospitality of the Matrix, by Irina Aristarkhova

Our featured cover for this week is Irina Aristarkhova’s Hospitality of the Matrix.

July 3, 2012

Featured Cover of the Week: Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity

From time to time, we like to showcase one of our covers. The above is from Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity, by Lauren Rabinovitz. The cover was designed by Julia Kushnirsky.

February 19, 2010

CUP Award-Winning Covers!

The Association of American University Presses recently announced winners from its book, jacket, and journal show, awarding four awards to Columbia University for jacket design. Congratulations to our excellent design department! Here are the winning jackets: (Designer: Chang Jae Lee)...

August 27, 2009

Did the Columbia University Press design department start a trend?

Perhaps we are indulging a bit in hyperbole with our headline but as noted in Galleycat, it seems like other publishers are catching on to the remarkable photographs of Cara Barer. We used one of her photographs for Ted Striphas’s...

July 29, 2009

Well Titled, Well Covered features There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night

The New Yorker‘s blog The Book Bench recently featured Cao Naiqian’s There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night in their “Well Titled, Well Covered” feature. Here’s how they explain their criteria for their well...

May 11, 2009

Gastropolis in Reading New York

The New York Times featured Gastropolis: Food and New York City, edited by Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, in their roundup of New York City books and gave special praise for the book’s delightful cover (see right). From the article:...