#book design

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Deborah Turbeville - Wallflower. Congreve Pub. Co., distributed by Simon and Schuster, 1978. Hardcover, First Edition. 

Deborah Turbeville is one of my favorite photographers and this 1978 book was the first photobook she ever published.

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The Arcana

once past these doors, it is every soul for themselves,
let out to run, hide and fight,
make it until dawn
and survive the game of madness

she looked up into the dark sky,
the Arcana above them all
two triangles in a diamond representing
mountains in front of the setting sun

the dusty smell of the wildflowers was surrounding her,
the desert stretching wide.
they were not alone in this game.
people of the sands.
it was their territory.

when a hand covered her mouth,
she didn’t bother to scream,
no-one was out here to hear her anyway.
she was in the hands of the enemy now.
she wouldn’t make it until the setting moon at dawn

7E Guest Artist Stefanie Posavec

Stefanie Posavec is an London-based data artist with an MA in Communication Design (Central Saint Martins).  With a background in book design and text visualisation, she works as a designer with a focus on data-related design, with work ranging from data visualization and information design. She is commissioned for data art and data illustration for a variety of clients. Her personal work focuses on the visual representation of language, literature, or numbers and has been exhibited internationally.

Check out her site. We love her book art.  

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Sputnik Sweetheart - print available here.

Kafka On The Shore-inspired by Haruki Murakami.

Print available here.

A cover design for the fictionalized-from-life novel My Father’s Ghost is Climbing in the Rain by Patricio Pron. A reflection on depression, obsession, and ultimately, the past of our parents that needs to be remembered. I enjoyed this read, as I do most Latin American authors who I pick up at the library, though the design stumped me until it came upon me to combine two of my ideas.

A painful and unsettling poetry cycle, The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson, was the next book cover I designed. Although my first idea for this cover struck me as more intriguing and obtuse than this one, I have not yet found the best way to iterate that idea. This approach conveys much of the emotional ambiguity of Carson’s narrative.

I’ll be posting more cover designs over the next few weeks on this blog, but you can check them out on my website, too.

I read The Rings of Saturn after finishing Station Eleven.

Unlike the author of that book, Sebald does not use visual images to embed his narrative with symbolic meaning and in that sense coming to a design idea felt much murkier than the previous cover I tackled. Nevertheless I’m very satisfied with the results, and definitely think this refresh has more contemporary appeal than the old New Directions cover designs.

I’ll be posting more cover designs over the next few weeks on this blog, but you can check them out on my website, too.

Next in the book cover series–here is my design for Station Eleven, by Emily St, John Mandel. Though I wasn’t enamoured with the writing, I appreciated that taking on this design project lead me to abstract the subject matter. The text was so replete with visual images that I wanted to get away with a more expected direction.

I’ll be posting more cover designs over the next few weeks on this blog, but you can check them out on my website, too.

I’ve started making cover designs for the books that I’ve been reading. Here’s my design for Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion.

I read the book in one sitting, it’s so powerful and devastating. 

my illustration for Andersen’s The Old House. 

I make it for competition New Children’s Book and i’m sooo excited! long list will be published on June 3.

New Arrivals: First Edition of ‘Dada: Monograph of a Movement / Monographie einer Bewegung / Monographie d'un Mouvement.’ Edited by Willy Verkauf.

New Arrivals: First Edition of THE GAY COLORING BOOK [Washington, DC: Guild Press, 1964].

Extremely uncommon pre-Stonewall celebration of gayness, featuring a protagonist named Percy (“color me gay”) and his assortment of friends, all representing various iterations of gay stereotype from fey to femme to rough-trade. The final, poignant panel depicts Percy in an army uniform and is captioned: “My name is Percy. / Color me drafted.” Though riddled with what would in time come to be considered offensive stereotypes, it is inconceivable that this coloring book could have been produced for anything other than the gay market; it is full of inside jokes - bath houses, cruise bars, and sugar daddies - that would have been lost on the uninitiated reader of the era. We thus imagine the market to have been resultingly tiny, a supposition reflected in the lack of any evidence of this title in commerce and the presence of only five copies in institutional collections (per OCLC, as of 2016).

Congratulations to Derek Birdsall on winning a President’s Award at last night’s D&AD 50th anniversary celebrations. Birdsall is one of my design heroes, working in a strong typographic tradition that pays as much attention to the inside of the book as to the outside. Here are some of Derek’s greatest hits.

Game of Thrones Pop-Up Book by paper engineer and pop-up book creator Matthew Reinhart

Cover, endpapers and my submission for Zine Opiarte (2017) organized by Opiarte.

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               Trinidad & Tobago | Graphic Designer | Melanie Archer

from the Facebook page of Melanie Archer…

Friends, I’m happy to share the news that I recently won a Gold ADDY for Book Design for the publication, Port of Spain: An Architectural Record! Publisher: LUMIS Photography Photographs: Brian LewisMaps and charts: ACLA architecture Typefaces: Bild and KlavikaTexts by: Brian Lewis, Geoffrey MacLean, Stephen Stuempfle, Margaret McDowall, Gary Turton, Rudylynn de Four Roberts, and Gregory AboudMore spreads and info: http://melaniearcher.com/…/port-of-spain-an…/Caribbean Advertising Federation l ADDY Awards

kimi-wa-kasa-o-sashiteita:

Cover design by Daniel Brown

Here’s the new art for the Once Stolen ebook! it’s available now.

Here’s the cover of the 3rd volume of Errant! Designed and illustrated by me.

Japanese Publication- Monthly Cosmopolitan. Aoyama Nozomi and Wakida Asuka (Cosmopolitan). 2016.

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The book “Mayakovsky for the voice”. 1923.

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書窓（アオイ書房）　13冊 ／ 恩地孝四郎編.

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an unwritten autobiography

cover design [3/?]: book covers with sad/distressed women (with obscured faces)

read about this cover trend here.