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Design & Book Covers

Q & A with Ingrid Paulson, Ingrid Paulson Design

August 11, 2009

Before setting up her own design studio in Toronto, award-winning Canadian designer Ingrid Paulson was senior designer at McClelland & Stewart, and art director for Key Porter and Raincoast Books. Although Ingrid worked at Raincoast, we didn’t actually meet until BookCamp Toronto earlier this year. We only had a brief a conversation, but it was [...]

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Something For The Weekend, August 7th, 2009

August 7, 2009

Winnie and Wolf — cover design by Alex Camlin (the chap behind that rather wonderful Harvard Review overhaul). I’m hoping to speak to Alex for the designer Q & A series later this month. And just while were on the subject, Caustic Cover Critic looks at the new designs for the Penguin World War II [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, August 5th, 2009

August 5, 2009

Foucault — A nice new cover design from David Drummond (approval pending). (And apparently I like photos of the backs of people’s heads) Kill Your Darlings — Print asks book designers Carol Devine Carson, John Gall, Paul Buckley, Rodrigo Corral, John Gray, Gabriele Wilson, Paul Sahre, and Peter Mendelsund about the covers that didn’t quite [...]

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Q & A with Ingsu Liu, W.W. Norton

August 4, 2009

Having spent a lot of my life in the UK, I wasn’t particularly familiar with venerable New York independent publisher  W.W. Norton and Co. until my stint at Toronto’s (now doomed) Pages Books and Magazines where their books were frequently on tables. Although I left Pages a few years ago, I was recently reminded of [...]

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Midweek Miscellany, July 15th, 2009

July 15, 2009

Vintage Camus — Seen at Bente Miltenburg‘s Flickr photostream (via A Journey Around My Skull). An Intricate Dance — Author Sonya Chung describes her experience of the cover design process (and the weird — slightly tortured — anxieties that accompany it) for her debut novel Long For This World at The Millions blog (via Duke [...]

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