Design

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 [...]

Waste by Andrew F. Sullivan—out on March 15th from Dzanc Books. Pick up a copy here.

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 [...]

Ark by Julian Tepper (Dzanc Books, 2016)

Today the internet brought us a fine new poster for Terrence Malick's upcoming film, Knight of Cups.

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 [...]

The Brunist Day of Wrath, Robert Coover (Dzanc Books, 2014)

Late One Night by Lee Martin (Dzanc Books, 2016)

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 [...]

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 [...]

Back in August of last year I started working on an interior design for The Revenant, a revenge novel written by Michael Punke [...]

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

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is awesome. I’d love to do something like this sometime. (via John Gall’s blog)

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Working in graphic design usually means managing large files. That’s the case for me, anyway. As the designer of several publishing imprints, space fills up pretty quickly on my hard drive. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]