Hey y’all: as if I didn’t have enough to do, and the world didn’t have enough content, I started a newsletter! Keeping it simple, this newsletter will be occasional dispatches about what I’m writing, reading, and working on. Lots about books, design, and book design.
You can read my first post now about a public library’s publishing imprint, a book about a guy who works in hell, and an 84-inch cake.
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New work for @utexaspress !
At this point, I could probably fill an entire portfolio with beige covers featuring printed ephemera. To be clear, I'm not complaining—I don't want to get pigeonholed, but I love making this kind of cover.
New cover for @columbiauniversitypress
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Big American Writer recasts Jack Kerouac as an ethnic, bilingual author, demonstrating that his French Canadian upbringing and background were formative to his breakthrough literary achievements. Building on years of archival excavation, Jean-Christophe Cloutier demystifies the Beat writer’s complex compositional practices and techniques of self-translation.
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#bookcover #bookcoverdesign #bookdesign #jackkerouac
Every studio needs a cork board for:
A rotating collection of artwork you don’t have frames for
Drawings by your kids
Paragraph hyphenation and justification settings
Works in progress
Colorful IBM type rulers
Notes to self
Recently approved for @wsupress and the current poet laureate of the state of Michigan, Dr. Melba Boyd.
This is a reissue of a biography Dr. Boyd wrote in the 1990s about Frances E. W. Harper, a writer and important, but lesser-known, figure in the American abolitionist movement.
2026 has been off to a busy start! I'm grateful I get to design books.
#bookdesign #bookcover #francesewharper #poetics
New episode! 🎧 BOOKS ON THE BED with my good friend and graphic designer Nathaniel Roy. 📚
Listen to us talk about Nate’s fantastic BOTBs + his book club with his mother, his influence on Story Made and BOTB, his journey as a graphic designer, why design matters and also doesn’t matter, the quote tattooed on his arm, doing what he loves in Ypsilanti and not New York, and much more. Go listen now!!!
Nate’s Books on the Bed 📚
The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation by Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis by Sam Anderson
Second collage made at the new house
(The first one was bad)
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#cutandpaste #paperandglue #collage #edinburghcollagecollective #and #analogcollage #paper
