TODAY'S FEATURED POST
TrendWatching Part 1: Philosophy
It's a big part of my job as a Creative Director to be on top of bookcover trends. Actually, no, that's not accurate. It's a big part of my job to be ahead of trends before they hit bookcovers. Which means paying attention to aspects of culture you wouldn't necessarily consider linked to book publishing. It's one level to say we look at industries that tend to adjust faster to trends than books — like…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Sifting through the Treasure Trove
December 31, 2024 - For this last day of 2024, I had the idea of sharing my top-10 articles of the year. This is a treasure trove of a website, but with 4500+ posts, I need to bookmark the ones that I expect to revisit. With 253 just this year it proved impossible to narrow it down to just 10 (even with me re-reading all of them in the last month!), especially with the variety of resources amongst them. Instead, today I share 10 MC articles of 2024 that have had the greatest impact on me. Tools, techniques, reviews, etc are very useful, but I seem to have a bias toward the articles that make me think differently about how I approach my art, and fire me up to get back in front of the easel. Art &…
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