The Art of Seduction
by Peter Terzian
Call it the design world’s dirty little secret: Getting a client’s approval sometimes means relying on more than brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed comps. And when faced with the objections of intractable, unimaginative, chronically contrarian, color-blind, or just plain grumpy clients, designers may resort to more nuanced methodologies—methods that are not taught in design school. Psychological methods. Machiavellian methods. Used-car-dealer methods. Manipulation. Intimidation. Seduction....
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The Hypothetical Library: Fictional Covers for Real Writers
by Peter Terzian
The concept of non-existent books inspired Charles Orr, an advertising executive who designs real-life book covers, to create jackets for the never-realized or newly imagined projects of contemporary writers. Orr’s blog, The Hypothetical Library, was launched in February; nearly every week, he posts a new cover for a make-believe book....
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Oliver Munday
by Peter Terzian
In Oliver Munday's designs and illustrations, things often morph into other things. As a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Munday created a typeface out of plastic soldiers that he strategically set on fire and melted, producing an alphabetical army of the wounded and maimed. An illustration on the cover of a poetry book by the young inmates of a prison in Washington, D.C.--Munday's hometown--shows the ridges of a pencil turning into the iron bars of a jail cell. And in a recent poster for PieLab, an Alabama dessert shop and community space created by the design collaborative Project M, a slice of pie inverts to form a beaker....
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OK-RM
by Peter Terzian
Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath met while studying at the University of the West of England, where they were given a "very liberated" education that focused on "personal exploration," according to McGrath. Their apprenticeships at large design studios supplied the hands-on experience that led them to found OK-RM in late 2008....
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The Painted Book
by Peter Terzian
Lately, a handful of well-read visual artists have turned to book design—specifically, the classic covers of the 20th century—as a source of raw material and inspiration....
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100 Years of Howards End
by Peter Terzian
On the 100th anniversary of E.M Forster's novel Howards End, a look back at two classic book covers from David Gentleman and Edward McKnight Kauffer....
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Ceci n'est pas un gadget
by Peter Terzian
For Olly Moss’s first book design commission, he made the jacket of Jaron Lanier’s self-described manifesto You Are Not a Gadget—published in the UK by Penguin Books—look like an e-reader....
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Interview with David Pearson
by Peter Terzian
"Many prophesied the death of the printed word, but we see it as an opportunity to luxuriate in the craft and tactility of the physical book and the printed page....
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Kill Your Darlings
by Peter Terzian
Carol Devine Carson, John Gall, Paul Sahre, Peter Mendelsund, John Gray, Gabriele Wilson, and Paul Buckley talk about their most memorable book designs that never saw the light of day....
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