You know the work . You love the work . Don't miss the talk . The Heads of State promise an evening of posters, books, illustrations, b...

Article by  Peter Terzian  on artists who use the printed book as inspiration for their art.  Below: Leanne Shapton, Duncan Hannah, and Ric...

Well, one of my other jobs. This one for The Other Press.

The New York Times Magazine asked a few designers to insert Jesus into scenes from American history. Illustrations accompanied an article a...

Was thinking about starting up a blog dedicated to inscribed books. But guess what? There already is one. Shocking. Still might though.

Seems to be for a good cause. The only book related garment I've ever owned is a t-shirt with this on the front:

Short piece  on  Megan Wilson's  redesign of Howard's End for  Vintage Classics .

Selections from a huge and varied  archive of  Philip K. Dick covers . A collection we published a few years ago:

Wherein the retailer acts like a dick and a publisher finally grows some balls. Have to admit Amazon saying  " Macmillan  has a  monopo...

The first book cover I ever "designed": The most recent cover I designed:

Michael Bierut on one of the (if not the ) most famous book covers of all time. UPDATE: Just pulled this image randomly from the web and it...

Book cover design contest for In the Name of the Rose.

Art utilizing old book components by the great Gary Taxali  (do I detect some rejected book cover comps in there?) Not terribly expensive e...

I don't particularly remember an appearance by Mick Avory in this novel (though I think Dave Davies' hat may have had a few lines o...

Commercial jackets. Still the hardest part of the job. 

Book cover pundit Peter Terzian has a new music blog: Earworms Check out the "Little Books of Harsh Patel" (above) at Lined and Un...

Ending on a graceful note. Two of the best: Happy 75th!