Design

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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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Last week I gathered up all of the posters for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And this week, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is awesome.

I’d love to do something like this sometime.

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

I love book design, and I love movies. Now, these beautiful new covers from Megan Wilson and Evan [...]

It’s always exciting when I wrap up another issue of Monkeybicycle. For eight years I’ve been editing and designing these books [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]