{"id":1058,"date":"2021-07-11T15:58:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christopherhallman.com\/?page_id=1058"},"modified":"2024-05-05T00:41:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T00:41:38","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christopherhallman.com\/index.php\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Amongst my many jobs, I designed books for a short while. Here are a few of my favorites. The cover to the left was for a collection of short stories. The main story is set in Davenport, IA, a town in which I have lived on two separate occasions. That gave this project a hefty personal weight. I found an old hand drawn map of Davenport, and then mixed in imagery from the other stories in the book to create a curious collage composition. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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To be honest I don’t remember what this story is about, but I like the image that I came up with.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This wasn’t a book, rather a one-off job creating the look-and-feel for a wholesaler’s catalog, but it looks sort of bookish. The company sold a range of items, primarily from Central America. My favorite part about this is the font that I made, inspired by Mayan glyphs.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Simple and pretty. I took the image of the flower with an iphone, which at the time I found surprising.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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My favorite part about this cover is the little red tick in the letter “A,” and I suppose the choice of all caps. <\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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