{"id":9550,"date":"2009-08-10T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9550"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:06:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:06:19","slug":"book-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9550","title":{"rendered":"Book designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.printmag.com\/Article\/Kill-Your-Darlings\">Great piece about book designs<\/a> &#8211; and how certain covers come to be, not to mention the runners-up for particular covers. I love the analysis included of the different designs, thoughts from the designers themselves, etc.  It&#8217;s all a process.  Love this stuff. Mitchell &#8211; you&#8217;ll note they discuss Ron&#8217;s book!<\/p>\n<p>One of the designers says (and I loved this):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cIt\u00e2\u0080\u0099s a little like navel-gazing talking about killed work,\u00e2\u0080\u009d says freelance designer Paul Sahre. \u00e2\u0080\u009cIt\u00e2\u0080\u0099s such a part of what you do that putting it out there and going, \u00e2\u0080\u0098See, look how great this was,\u00e2\u0080\u0099 or \u00e2\u0080\u0098Aren\u00e2\u0080\u0099t I a victim?\u00e2\u0080\u0099 is kind of terrible.\u00e2\u0080\u0099\u00e2\u0080\u009d Most of the time, he thinks, \u00e2\u0080\u009cyou end up at some better place after something gets killed.\u00e2\u0080\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great piece about book designs &#8211; and how certain covers come to be, not to mention the runners-up for particular covers. I love the analysis included of the different designs, thoughts from the designers themselves, etc. It&#8217;s all a process. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9550\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9550\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13296,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9550\/revisions\/13296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}