{"id":2089,"date":"2009-10-20T00:05:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T07:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/10\/rodrigo-corral-professional-boxing-fan-feted\/"},"modified":"2009-10-20T00:05:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T07:05:43","slug":"rodrigo-corral-professional-boxing-fan-feted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/20\/rodrigo-corral-professional-boxing-fan-feted\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigo Corral, Professional Boxing Fan, Feted"},"content":{"rendered":"

from flavorwire<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

5 Questions With: Graphic Designer Rodrigo Corral<\/dd>\n
11:55 am\u00a0Monday Oct 19, 2009<\/dd>\n

by\u00a0Caroline Stanley<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

School of Visual Arts\u00a0alum\u00a0Rodrigo Corral<\/a>\u00a0is responsible for some of the most memorable book covers of the past few years. The red-splashed silhouette for the cover of Junot Diaz\u2019s\u00a0The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em><\/a>. That beautiful sprinkled-covered hand on the cover of James Frey\u2019s\u00a0A Million Little Pieces<\/a><\/em>. Those fuchsia lips on the cover of Chuck Palahniuk\u2019s\u00a0Snuff<\/em><\/a>. His visuals stick with you as much as the story.<\/p>\n

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You can check out more of Corral\u2019s work as part of SVA\u2019s\u00a0The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture<\/em><\/a>through November 7th, and\u00a0view a slideshow of select pieces featured in the show here>><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Do you believe that less is more in graphic design?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, at least not conceptually. I don\u2019t like overly decorated work, but can appreciate design that is layered with multiple ideas, especially in books.<\/p>\n

2. Have you ever designed a cover you loved for a book you hated? If so, did it make you feel deceitful<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Hated? Have I designed covers for books that felt less than completely new and fresh? Sure; but it\u2019s my job to give every book the best possible chance out there on the shelves \u2014 strictly visually speaking, and I shouldn\u2019t judge their literary merits. It does feel pretty good to work on books I love reading though.<\/p>\n

3. Have you formed any friendships with authors because of your work \u2014 particularly with someone like Palahniuk, who you\u2019ve worked with more than once?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not many friendships because I don\u2019t generally work directly with the authors, but there have been many instances of mutual respect, and I\u2019ve received some very generous letters. I have watched some fights (professional boxing, of course) with James Frey, which has been fun.<\/p>\n

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from flavorwire 5 Questions With: Graphic Designer Rodrigo Corral 11:55 am\u00a0Monday Oct 19, 2009 by\u00a0Caroline Stanley School of Visual Arts\u00a0alum\u00a0Rodrigo Corral\u00a0is responsible for some of the most memorable book covers of the past few years. The red-splashed silhouette for the cover of Junot Diaz\u2019s\u00a0The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. That beautiful sprinkled-covered hand on […]<\/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-2089","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\/2089","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=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}