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Sometimes You Can<\/em> Judge a Book by Its Cover<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Graphic designer Rodrigo Corral explains how he comes up with iconic book-jacket art.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0RUMAAN ALAM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On this week\u2019s episode of Working, Rumaan Alam spoke with graphic designer and creative director Rodrigo Corral. They discussed his work designing book-cover art, where he looks for inspiration for designs, and how he corresponds with authors when creating a cover for their work. This partial transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rumaan Alam<\/strong>: I\u2019ve wanted for a long time to talk to someone for this show who designs book jackets. Just to establish for our listeners some of your work, because I think that a lot of people are going to know your work, I\u2019m going to mention the cover of James Frey\u2019s\u00a0A Million Little Pieces,<\/em>\u00a0which shows a hand covered in sprinkles against a pale blue backdrop; or I\u2019ll mention John Green\u2019s\u00a0The Fault in Our Stars,<\/em>\u00a0which has a black cloud sitting on top of a white cloud with this lettering that looks like chalk on a blackboard; or I\u2019ll mention Junot D\u00edaz\u2019s\u00a0The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,<\/em>\u00a0which has a spray-painted silhouette that looks like graffiti, but it also looks like a Rorschach test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you go to the bookstore right now in this country, you\u2019re going to see paperback editions of Rachel Cusk\u2019s\u00a0Outline<\/em>,\u00a0Transit<\/em>, and\u00a0Kudos<\/em>\u00a0which each have these arresting photographs on the cover: a seashell perched in the sand, a praying mantis trapped in a plastic cup, a view from an airplane window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m only mentioning a few of your designs, but I think this gives a sense of what it is that you\u2019ve done that really caught my attention, which is book design. What does the brief look like when you\u2019re designing a book jacket, and how is that different than when the task is to design a hotel logo or an illustration for a magazine article?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Slate Sometimes You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover Graphic designer Rodrigo Corral explains how he comes up with iconic book-jacket art. BY\u00a0RUMAAN ALAM On this week\u2019s episode of Working, Rumaan Alam spoke with graphic designer and creative director Rodrigo Corral. They discussed his work designing book-cover art, where he looks for inspiration for designs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}