The design of Eros by Herb Lubalin has also made it a clean, elegant literary and lithographic work of art "suitable for coffee table". It has an elegantly oversized format and printed on both matte and glossy paper, and with hardback covers, making it more like a book rather than a quarterly magazine. The selection of arts in the magazine also emphasised the great taste of Ginsburg and Lubalin. Art that addressed the extent to which the erotic was a theme, throughout the ages, by major painters and sculptors, were shown in Eros, along with bold and sensitive layouts for photographic portfolios by modern photographers.