4/19/12
The website is up. Finally.
www.johngalldesign.com
Still a work in progress. I will be adding more projects and descriptive info in the coming months.
Now that I think about it, this blog is looking kind of tired...
Still a work in progress. I will be adding more projects and descriptive info in the coming months.
Now that I think about it, this blog is looking kind of tired...
4/17/12
4/8/12
Mirage Show Collage Show
Show opens this Friday. Some great collage artists involved. Up for one week only. Should be a blast!
3/13/12
2/21/12
Barney Rosset 1922-2012
2/9/12
The Stock Book Cover
Has finally arrived! At least them means no more self publishers calling, trying to get you to do work for free.
1/30/12
1/27/12
New Cover
For an older Tom McCarthy book. Plus proposed triptych cover for ipad (not happening).
Photos by Denis Darzcq
1/12/12
Kids Today 6
Some work from the Fall 2011 students.
Projects include: children's book, classic author series, new cover for "The Imperfectionists".
Joey Cofone
Myeong Jin Shin
Yang Kim
Hyun Min Kim
John Post
Thaiana Rodrigues
1/10/12
What was a book?
AIGA talk: The Next Chapter: The Design and Publishing of the Digital Book. With Chip Kidd, Craig Mod, Carin Goldberg and Jeremy Clark (Adobe).
12/19/11
New cover
For one of my favorite writers, Jim Shepard.
Another great collection of stories, or as the New York Times says:
Another great collection of stories, or as the New York Times says:
“A master . . . Shepard’s taut, high-concept, research-dependent fiction covers a bracing, career-long range of hobbyhorses and obsessions . . . And his preference for historical quests, for real people’s big gestures, may help keep American short fiction from falling asleep in the snug little precincts of its usual subject matter.” —Thomas Mallon, The New York Times Book Review
Cover collage by the awesome Fred Free.
Should be out in paper by February if not sooner.
12/13/11
Just in time for Christmas...
Our charming new edition of Charles Dickens' classic. Only 8 bucks! With flaps, even.
Illustrations by the magical Peter de Sève.
The rest of Dickens to follow:
12/8/11
Richard M. Powers
For those of you who don't know the work of Richard M. Powers, make a trip to the sci-fi section of your nearest used bookstore immediately. Powers pretty much single handedly reinvented the look of the science fiction book cover. Drawing inspiration from surrealist and modern art (Miro, Tanguy, Picasso), rather than traditional pulp depictions of spaceships and aliens, Powers' cover illustrations emphasized the psychological and trippy-er aspects of the genre. Largely forgotten (except by enthusiasts), in the 1940s and 50s he was THE go to guy for mass market science fiction illustration. Some of his work was recently represented in Steven Brower's superb study of mass market book covers: Breathless Homicidal Slime Mutants. He should really have his own book. Read more about him here.
The covers below were culled are from the collection of occasional Spine Out guest blogger and knower of all things of interest, Tim Cronin.
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