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A Book Designer's Notebook

Nathaniel Roy
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Notes on book design and creative practice for writers, designers, and book lovers.

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What I Like About Collage

I have been making a lot of collage lately after the kids go to bed.

I started making them in 2019, and have never really stopped, but there has been a flurry of output the last few weeks. After a summer of hopping between one medium to t...

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Good Books with Good Covers

Before I was a graphic designer, I was a reader. This is, ultimately, why I design books—it sure ain’t the money.

There are few greater joys for me than when A) I love a book, and B) I also love its cover. This isn’t necessarily rare, but...

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Artist vs. Parent

I became an artist at the same time I became a father. At least, that is, according to Beth Pickens’ definition of the term.

Irrespective of medium, skill, or money-making ability, Pickens writes1 that artists are “people who are profoundl...

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Who Designed It? 'Yesteryear' by Caro Claire Burke

When I go to bookstores, I am obsessed with looking at books’ back flap to see who designed the jacket.

If I particularly like it, I look them up. I usually follow them on Instagram. I add them to my little mental Rolodex of designers whom...

2 months ago
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Dancing with Pixels and Ink

I might have two left feet, but I like to dance—to shuffle, to bounce—between the analog and the digital. Looking back at some of my early work, I have enjoyed doing so for some time, but I wouldn’t have told you that. Not then. It was not...

2 months ago
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    Book designer, collage maker, photo taker, and a few other things in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

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