TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Turning Points: In Italy Edition
Hi everyone, I'm on SABBATICAL. Orbit Books (our parent company, Hachette, actually) has a sabbatical program where after 15 years of working for the company you get a month off to do something healing/educational and heal a chunk of burnout. And I've been in Italy! I'm about halfway through, so I'll do a recap of everything and thoughts on sabbatical in general next month. For now, here's a repost of a fave episode on my…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Book Night at the TDC
June 13, 2024 - This is going to be a short post because I am just coming home from the Type Director's Club Book Design Night and it's well past midnight. TDC Book Night is the one night a year most (if not all) of the Book Designers in all the Big Publishers in NYC get together to celebrate their own. And it took a long pandemic break, so this was the first time it's been held since 2019. And while I know this is mostly an illustrator blog, a hell of a lot of folks here are interested in book cover work, and this is a good resource for finding out how Designers and Art Directors in Book Publishing think. And it's good to learn some of the names for your client lists. The TDC Youtube channel has…
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