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Journey NYC - We've just been reading all about the NYC Journey exhibition over on Mike Dempsey's Graphic Journey Blog. You should too. The installation is on all this wee...3 hours ago
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Sing Swan Song - [image: 01 Keizaburo Tejima, Swan Sky, 1983] Keizaburo Tejima's Swan Sky (1983, Japan) was published in the US in 1988. In fact, publishers brought out a...9 hours ago
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How to Be Inappropriate - Designer credit to come This is so spot on: it really is inappropriate to forgo a belt when wearing a nice pair of trousers.9 hours ago
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Midweek Miscellany, November 11th 2009 - The Nabokov Collection — Art Director John Gall on the Vintage Nabokov redesign at Design Observer: Nabokov was a passionate butterfly collector, a theme t...13 hours ago
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Man & Space redesign - Eric Zelinski, aka OBNX.MUTE, redesigns the Time Life classic, Man And Space, for class. I hope his teachers at Ringling are freaking out over this.22 hours ago
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Up-to-Date in Kansas City - Architectural historian Keith Eggener retrieves the little known architectural history of the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City — today the nation's official...1 day ago
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OMG: Ceskoslovensko - Late to this party (as usual) but...herewith- a primer on what great book covers should look like. From a journey round my skull (also: as usual) .......1 day ago
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Die Peperoni im Heu (The Red Pepper In the Hay) - As part of the National Novel Writing Month I will be posting quickly-designed covers for participating authors - a new one every day. This story is, quite...1 day ago
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Technical Difficulties - Due to a certain bastard telecom company, I'm having extreme net connection difficulties at the moment, so I apologise for the lack of updates. Flesh wi...1 day ago
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Paired: Krum + Paley - New York (Peony) by Gregory Krum One Day One day one of us will be lost to the other this has been talked about but lightly turning away shyness th...2 days ago
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My new book, "Look Both Ways," makes NY Magazine's Approval Matrix! - I am so thrilled to announce that New York Magazine has included my brand new book, Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design...2 days ago
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Yankee Invasion - Final Cover Final Production Previous / Next image (1 of 2){image10} Author: Timothy G. Compton Designer: Anders Hanson Publisher: Scarletta Press Genre: ...3 days ago
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Rob Grom: John Dies @ the End - A wonderful treat came upon me at the bookstore last week, when I saw this book brazenly staring at me from across the room. WTF, I asked myself. Then I p...3 days ago
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Eureka Magazine - Yesterday saw the unveiling of the second issue of Eureka, the new Times monthly supplement about science. The Design team consists of art direction by ...6 days ago
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The Happy Book :) - by Rachel Kempster + Meg Leder Art Director: Greg Avila // Sourcebooks, Inc. THE HAPPY BOOK shows how to practice and celebrate happiness so you can find ...6 days ago
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Around the World in 80 Books: the sixth leg - Last night, my visiting mother raised a perfect French brow and asked me, "Zo... you 'ave not put up a blerg* since June, non?"** I realised, with horror, th...6 days ago
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Ecco Wine Guide - A couple years ago I worked on a cover for Ecco called The Ecco Guide to the Best Wines of Italy. The original direction was to make a label for a wine bot...1 week ago
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Looking into the Future - This has been a crazy year. A busy early spring, but, a very slow summer. In fifteen years of book design, this summer may have been one of the slowest I ...4 weeks ago
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New video - I've pieced together a new video presentation of, specifically, my landscape paintings from the last year or two. The running time is about 4 minutes and t...1 month ago
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Group Thinkery is up and running - Spurred on by the original post on this site, Group Think, I've started a community blog for book designers. Group Thinkery. You can read more about it here.3 months ago
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- Ian Shimkoviak
- Portland, OR, United States
- Ian's (Brooklyn, NY 1979-) design career began in Hawaii at Clarence Lee Design and Associates. His work has covered just about every design discipline in the graphic world, and with over 10 years behind every gamut of projects his visual experience shines through. Having traveled across the globe and lived in NY, LA, SF and exotic places such as India, Hawaii and the Philippines, his world experience has allowed him to excel in his chosen craft in a diverse visual world. In 2005 Ian formed a strong partnership with longtime friend and work associate Alan Hebel. Together they formed Alian Design. In 2008, Ian created theBookDesigners with partners Alan, Usana and Scott (all had previously worked at Palace Press International and Insight Editions with Raoul Goff). This team results in a dynamic company that handles all book design, packaging, production and print related services with a passionate desire to see a better type of book. Ian resides in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, son and dog and second baby on the way.
1 comments:
I posted a comment earlier having seen only the last of your proposals but here I found many more interesting covers.Now that I have seen all your suggestions my favourite and the one that best captures the essence of the book is the blue one with the collage. I posted a link here in my blog too, where you can see the original cover
http://annabooklover.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/pythagoria/
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