May 9, 2012

What Holt is signaling, quite consciously, with their yellow and reflective purple titling for the new Hilary Mantel.

May 8, 2012

Atria’s concerns with the hardcover jacket design for Jennifer Weiner’s Then Came You:

  • Skirt color 
  • Hair style
  • Ugly desk

Things about which they are blithely unconcerned:

  • The terrifying geometries of their stock photography, making it seem as if the floor of this office lies at a forty-five degree angle to the surface of the earth. Or is she in a plummeting aircraft? Maybe it’s the future, and she is actually in the interior of a spun up asteroid, and those are screens meant to ease claustrophobia. Which explains the Future Desk. And the blouse. Nobody wears green on X-371, lest they be targeted by the security wasps, obviously.

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