COVER DESIGN
Occasionally, I will take on a book or CD cover design job. These kinds of projects are great exercises in interpretation and compression. That is, like identity design, the challenge is to convey the spirit, tone and personality of a multi-faceted and expansive work (a text, a set of songs) in a single image. Typography must communicate essentials, but also serve the tonal expressiveness of the imagery or, at the very least, get out of the way of the imagery’s emotional qualities.