December 6, 2010
Sometimes it can take me a little while to feature a designer on The Casual Optimist. Such is the case with Oregon-based book designer Jason Gabbert. I was impressed with Jason’s work with Charles Brock and — at that time — Nate Salciccioli (interviewed here) back when Faceout Studio was still known as the DesignWorks [...]
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November 16, 2010
Hugo Wilcken’s Colony (published in 2007 and mentioned previously here) is almost certainly the novel I’ve talked up most this year. The cover, something like a jaunty vintage travel poster to a malarial Heart of Darkness (nauseously appropriate for a postmodern novel about a French penal colony), was designed by London-based print designer Clare Skeats. [...]
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