Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

I have heard so many great things about Steve Martin’s new novel, An Object of Beauty, that it has flown to the top of my read­ing list. So I was thrilled to hear from Darren Booth last week, who is the artist behind the book’s cover. Working under the cre­ative direc­tion of Anne Twomey, Darren set out to cre­ate a bold typo­graphic solu­tion that ref­er­ences fine art painters with­out bor­row­ing from any spe­cific artist. And the result­ing cover fea­tures a series of unique, painterly, and richly col­ored let­ter­forms, a design that will def­i­nitely stand out on shelves. The book also fea­tures some great tex­tural details that can only be expe­ri­enced in per­son, includ­ing an ultra-gloss lam­i­na­tion on the typog­ra­phy and a paper stock that emu­lates primed canvas.