The project began in the summer of 2010, when Rodrigo Corral, a book designer who has created covers for Junot Diaz, Jeffrey Eugenides and Jay-Z, began to toy with the idea of a visual novel that used images, rather than words, to tell the story.
He dropped out of college to apprentice with a book jacket designer.
It is an occupational hazard of my life as a book cover designer to almost never be able to read the books that I am covering.
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The copy editor took 3 days to read and return the book, the graphic designer had the exact cover layout done in 5 days, and the formatter turned his Word doc into Kindle .
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In his book, How to Wrap Five Eggs, graphic designer Hideyuki Oka uses black and white photographs to illustrate the beauty of natural packaging.
"It's no coincidence that the phrase 'je ne sais quoi' is used to describe something so beautiful and elegant that it is seemingly indescribable, " said Erin Swift, a Manhattan-based set designer, prop stylist and author of the new book, "French Accents: At Home With Parisian Objects and Details" (Clarkson Potter).
Responsive web design was invented just over two years ago, out of the robot-infused mind of Boston designer Ethan Marcotte (he went on to write a book of the same title).
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The book is a brilliant how-to manual for how to be a contemporary designer and get paid for the privilege.
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On Designer Daily I discovered the picture you see right of frame from a book on Chinese graphic design.
Harry S. Dent Jr. made a name for himself with his 1993 book The Great Boom Ahead, which predicted with spooky accuracy everything from the rise of designer pizza chains to the decline in mortgage rates.
The book unfortunately seems contradictory in this area because while it recounts the efforts of British inventor and designer James, known for inventing the bagless vacuum cleaner.
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