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Sandy Kossin, American Illustrator
Sanford “Sandy” Kossin is one of the best. You may not remember him as he stopped working professionally some years back, preferring instead to draw from the live model to keep his formidable drawing skills sharp. Selfishly, I never agreed with that. I wanted more and more from him. I wanted to keep running into his work on paperback covers or Boy’s Life, like I had as a kid. Sandy hit his stride through the…
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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Head Down. Painting and Drawing.
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A Teaser
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Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration
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It’s not too late!!!!
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