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Cover Meeting Season Two
Published March 19, 2025

Cover Meeting Season Two

First episode of (the long-awaited) second season of Steve Leard‘s excellent book cover design podcast Cover Meeting is a conversation with Irish freelance designer Jack Smyth in which he discusses his work, the industry, building community, how he really feels about cover quotes, and more.

I’m a big fan of Jack’s work and it has regularly featured here over the years. He’s always helping with attributions and corrections, and generally supporting the blog, so I really appreciate the mention on the podcast. Cheers, mate.

Doxology by Nell Zink; design Jack Smyth (Fourth Estate / August 2019)
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman; design by Jack Smyth (Fourth Estate / July 2020)
The Age of Skin by Dubravka Ugresic; design by Jack Smyth (Open Letter / November 2020)
True Biz by Sara Novic; design by Jack Smyth (Little, Brown / April 2022)
The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight; design Jack Smyth (Faber & Faber / May 2022)
MILF by Paloma Faith; design by Jack Smyth (Ebury / June 2024)
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Published September 19, 2023

Cover Meeting

Cover Meeting is a new book cover design podcast hosted by British designer Steve Leard.

Steve has recorded eight episodes for the first season, with a new episode released each week, and a second season planned for 2024.

The first episode, released earlier this month, is a wide-ranging conversation with David Pearson. David discusses his time at Penguin, working freelance, the issues of low pay in the industry, as well as his design process and the challenges of creating interesting work.

Links to download the podcast can be found here.

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Published November 28, 2018

Design Matters with Paul Sahre

Graphic designer and book cover designer Paul Sahre talks about his work and his recent memoir, Two-Dimensional Man, with Debbie Millman on Design Matters: 

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Published July 20, 2018

Spine Magazine Podcast: Coralie Bickford-Smith

Holly Dunn interviews designer, illustrator and author Coralie Bickford-Smith for the first episode of season 2 of the Spine Magazine podcast:

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Published June 2, 2016

Monocle on Books in Translation

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On the latest Monocle 24 Culture show, host Robert Bound discusses the recent rise in translated fiction with Anne Meadows, commissioning editor at Portobello and Granta, and Lisette Verhagen, foreign-rights agent at David Godwin Associates, while Andrew Mueller talks to Deborah Smith, Man Booker International Prize-winning translator of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, and Lyndsay Knecht visits Deep Vellum in Dallas:1

Monocle Culture with Robert Bound Books in Translation mp3

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Published March 28, 2016

On the Media: Print is Back, Back Again

In a special report, WNYC’s On the Media recently took a look at the publishing industry and print books. It covers a lot of ground — including the subversive history of adult colouring books, Amazon’s bricks-and-mortar bookstore, and South Korea’s quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature — but the opening segment, ‘Why the Publishing Industry Isn’t in Peril‘, with LA Times books editor Carolyn Kellogg is an excellent overview of the current state of US publishing:

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Published March 11, 2016

Design Matters with Tobias Frere-Jones

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On the subject of typography, I missed type designer Tobias Frere-Jones on Design Matters with Debbie Millman at the end of last year:

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Published November 20, 2014

Hazlitt Interview with Peter Mendelsund

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Book designer and author Peter Mendelsund discusses his books Cover and What We See When We Read with Christopher Frey for the Hazlitt podcast:

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Published October 20, 2014

Design Matters with Tom Geismar

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Kicking off a new season of Design Matters, Debbie Millman talks to pioneer of American graphic design Tom Geismar about how the practice of design has changed since the 1950s:

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Published March 21, 2014

Design Matters with Irma Boom

Book designer Irma Boom spoke to Debbie Millman recently about her work for Design Matters:

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Published December 20, 2013

Joe Sacco on Bookworm


Following on from my post yesterday, Joe Sacco talks about his new book The Great War with Michael Silverblatt on Bookworm:

KCRW Bookworm: Joe Sacco The Great War mp3

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Published December 4, 2013

Barbara Epstein, David Levine, and Graydon Carter on Magazine Publishing


Monday’s edition of CBC Radio show Ideas featured Michael Enright in conversation with the New York Review of Book‘s co-founder Barbara Epstein, caricaturist David Levine, and long-time Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter:

CBC Radio IDEAS: Barbara Epstein/David Levine/Graydon Carter mp3

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