The Casual Optimist

Books, Design & Culture

June 19, 2012
by Dan
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Fully Booked – Interview with David Pearson and Jim Stoddart

GestaltenTV have been reposting some of their past videos, and I just came across this interview with designer David Pearson and Penguin art director Jim Stoddart from 2008 for the Gestalten title Fully Booked: Cover Art and Design for Books (currently unavailable sadly):

April 16, 2010
by Dan
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Something for the Weekend

John Squire‘s 1980′s covers for the Penguin Decades Series at The Creative Review. The art direction was by Penguin’s Jim Stoddart, but yes, it is THAT John Squire (i.e. awesome). Fine Independent Publishing — An interesting interview with Barbara Epler, … Continue reading