Raw. Vegan. Not Gross.
Today Laura Miller's Raw. Vegan. Not Gross. (Flatiron Books) hits bookstores everywhere. I love this book not only because it's full of amazing vegan recipes that I'm going to make all summer [...]
Recently Approved Cover: WASTE
Waste by Andrew F. Sullivan—out on March 15th from Dzanc Books. Pick up a copy here.
Oscar Pop!
With the Oscars only a day away, things are getting exciting. There were a lot of great movies last year, so it should be a good show. I'm still scratching my head over who to choose in some [...]
NEW POSTER: Knight of Cups
Today the internet brought us a fine new poster for Terrence Malick's upcoming film, Knight of Cups.
Infinite Jest, the 20th Anniversary Edition
Last year Little, Brown and Co. asked fans to design a cover for the 20th anniversary edition of David Foster Wallace’s landmark novel, Infinite Jest. The competition, judged by a committee [...]
Unused Cover Comp: The Brunist Day of Wrath
The Brunist Day of Wrath, Robert Coover (Dzanc Books, 2014)
My Top 10 Book Covers of 2015
I'm not sure why I'm enjoying these year-end lists. But since I am, here's another one, and this one it's near and dear to me since it's in my field of book design. Because I work on about 100 [...]
My Top 20 Movie Posters of 2015
2015 was a good year for movie posters. Sure, there were the usual suspects with lazy san-serif type treatments, bland, Photoshopped images, and unoriginal character posters. But there were also [...]
The Revenant
Back in August of last year I started working on an interior design for The Revenant, a revenge novel written by Michael Punke [...]
DIY Vegan
One of my designs to recently hit bookstore shelves is something I was very excited to work on. It's a cookbook by Lisa Pitman and
Picador Modern Classics
I recently designed the interiors for a series of books for Picador called Picador Modern Classics. At 3-1/16" x 5-11/16", they're tiny editions of some [...]
More Star Wars, via The Poster Boys
Last week I gathered up all of the posters for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And this week, I’m very excited because one of my favorite podcasts, The Poster Boys, takes it waaaaay further, [...]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens—The Posters
With today's release of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens IMAX poster, I'm guessing we're near the end of the printed marketing materials. So I thought I'd look back at what we've seen so [...]
Killed Covers
Every book designer has an idea that didn’t make the cut, no matter how great it was. I know I do. There are a lot of people who need to sign off on them: publishers, authors, marketing [...]
Cover That Mug!
Has anyone else noticed a trend in type-over-the-face movie posters recently? Seeing the new one-sheet for Thor over the weekend got me to thinking about it a bit. I can remember seeing a [...]
Mitt Romney and Aquafresh
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney unveiled his new logo today. Apparently, it’s remarkably similar to the Aquafresh logo. I can see the resemblance when I look at it. But to get a real sense [...]
A Serious Interview with Coralie Bickford-Smith
There is a very fantastic blog about book design and many other fun and interesting things called Greater Than or Equal To, and today they feature and equally fun and interesting interview with [...]
Guess the Designer Baby
I’m a little late to this, but Design Observer has been running baby photos of designers in a lead-up to Mother’s Day next month. Today’s image is the last one and it looks like [...]
My Favorite Things
I love book design, and I love movies. Now, these beautiful new covers from Megan Wilson and Evan Gaffney marry the two things perfectly. Vintage is releasing new editions of James M. [...]
Monkeybicycle
It’s always exciting when I wrap up another issue of Monkeybicycle. For eight years I’ve been editing and designing these books and I’ve been able to work with an extraordinary [...]
Save 50/50
Apparently the AIGA has decided to discontinue their 50 Books/50 Covers competition after a measly nine decades. Is this a sign of the digital times? Perhaps. But it doesn’t have to be. [...]
30 Covers, 30 Days
The great Office of Letters and Light is smack dab in the middle of their 30 Covers, 30 Days project. The gist of this is that 30 NaNoWriMo authors were selected to participate, and they provide [...]
Movie Posters Until I Can Make Movie Posters
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m obsessed with cinema. I’ve spent just about all of my life–I can remember seeing Star Wars in the theater with my dad and brother when I was [...]
Why I Missed Writing About This Week’s Episode of Mad Men, and an Interview with the Great John Gall.
I wanted to write a post about Sunday’s episode of Mad Men–how we saw the return of some great characters; how Don continues a lonely, downward spiral; how Bobby’s lines rival [...]
Mud Luscious Press
For the past year or so, I’ve had the opportunity to do some book jacket work for Mud Luscious Press. If you don’t know about them, you should. They’re a small press doing big [...]
Wired to Design
Each morning I try to find one or two things to inspire me for the day. They’re usually design-related, but sometimes they’re other things, like a social cause or my cat. But lately, [...]