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is on the 4th floor of the historic Flatiron Building
by Peter Saville / 1979
for his typography and dynamic layout design for his magazine, THE FACE
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Henry Sene Yee is...
the Creative Director of PICADOR.
A BFA graduate of the School of Visual Arts in NYC, he started his career in editorial design freelancing at Condé Nast, and Rolling Stone magazine with Art Director Fred Woodward. He got his first job in book publishing working as a Junior Designer for Louise Fili, the Art Director at Pantheon Books / Random House. He left to work for St. Martin's Press as a Senior Designer, eventually promoted to Senior Art Director Deluxe and to his current position as Creative Director of Picador, a leading literary trade paperback imprint launched in 1995.
He has won numerous awards including: AIGA's 50 Books/50 Covers, The Art Directors Club GOLD Cube Winner, The Type Directors Club, The New York Book Show, The Society of Illustrators, Print Magazine's Regional Design Annual, Communication Arts, Graphis magazine, and EYE magazine's JUST ADD STOCK Winner. His design and photography blogs were chosen as a HOW magazine Top Ten Site for Designers.
He is a frequent guest speaker, lecturer, and competition judge as well as an instructor at the School of Visual Arts, NYC.
He can always be seen with a camera in one hand and an Americano Café in the other.
MY INSPIRATION PINBOARDS:
How do you design a book cover?
First you start with a blank page, stare and think really hard, drink lots of coffee, take lots of breaks, fix the copier jam, update your Facebook page, get over the fears that this project is the one that will finally expose you as the hack that you are, and then just trust to do what you feel is right from what you've read, present your ideas to find out how they live outside of your head, listen to feedback, try to leave work at a decent hour, have a life, floss, get enough sleep, have a good breakfast and come back the next day to redo it all over again. It's that simple and fun. And if it isn't, then get another blank page and start all over again.
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- About Carin Goldberg
- About Fred Marcellino
- An Interview with Carin Goldberg
- An Interview with Carol Devine Carson // Alfred A. Knopf
- An Interview with Gail Anderson // Rolling Stone & SpotCo
- An Interview with John Gall // Vintage Books
- An Interview with Paul Buckley // Penguin
- An Interview with Paula Scher // Pentagram // My SVA Portfolio Teacher
- An Interview with Peter Mendelsund // Alfred A. Knopf & Vertical Press &...
- Artist Series: James Victore
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- Artist Series: Paula Scher
- Artist Series: Stefan Sagmeister
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- B&N Video Interview with John Gall
- Fred Marcellino Remembered
- Louise Fili explains how to design a restaurant logo
- Louise Fili-The Night of the Italians: presented by The TDC
- Magnum photographer Paul Fusco, describing the RFK Funeral Train as they transport his body from NYC to Washington
- Maira Kalman Documantary
- Massimo Vignelli explains his 1972 NYC Subway Map.
- Matteo Bologna-The Night of the Italians: presented by The TDC
- Paula Scher: Great design is serious (not solemn)
Resources, of Course
- #1 Song on this Date in History
- 100 Best First Lines of Novels
- 40+ Tutorials for Working with Wacom Tablets
- 50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory
- [AE] Video Copilot.net: TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS with Andrew Kramer
- [AI] Vector Magic
- [B] Ancient Industries
- [B] Awesome People Reading Tumblr
- [B] Book Cover Archive
- [B] Book Covers Anonymous Blog
- [B] Book Design Review Blog
- [B] Casual Optimist Blog
- [B] Coudal Blog
- [B] Coverjunkie
- [B] covers.fwis Blog
- [B] CoverSpy: What New Yorkers are reading now.
- [B] Design Matters with Debbie Millman
- [B] Design Observer Blog
- [B] design:related studio Blog
- [B] dpreview: Digital Photography Review
- [B] Faceout Books Blog
- [B] Jacket Mechanical...Peter Mendelsund's Blog
- [B] Lovely Book Covers
- [B] Rough Front: Book Cover Appreciation Blog
- [B] Shelved Books: Kimberly Glyder Blog
- [B] SHORPY: The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog
- [B] Spine Out: John Gall's Blog
- [B] Swissmiss Blog
- [B] The Art (and Random Adventures) of ERIC TAN
- [B] The Art Dept w/ Irene Gallo // TOR Blog
- [B] The Jacket Museum
- [ID] Adobe InDesign CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts: Noble Desktop
- [ID] InDesign Magazine Tip-of-the-Week
- [InfoG] WeLoveDatavis: A collection of charts, graphs, diagrams
- [Ps] 350+ Smoke Brushes for Photoshop
- [Ps] 400+ Time Saving Photoshop Actions
- [Ps] 60 Advanced Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
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- [Ps] 600+ Light Effect Photoshop Brushes
- [T] Periodic Table of Typefaces: 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today.
- [T] That '70s Type! Part 1
- [T] we love typography.com
- [T] What the Font?!
- [W] 960 Grid System
- [W] [T] typekit: The easiest way to use Real Fonts on your website
- [W] CSS Shorthand Guide by Dustin Diaz
- [W] CSS3 Generator
- [W] DON'T FEAR the INTERNET: Basic HTML & CSS for Non-Web Designers by Jessica Hische & Russ Maschmeyer
- [W] Gridulator: Make Pixel Grids, Lickety-Split
- [W] How I Learned To Web Design Good — A Poorly Titled Guide to Learning Code by Cole Peters
- [W] Khoi Vinh's approach to designing for the Web with the typographic grid-"Yeeaahh! Grids Are Good"
- [W] siteInspire: a showcase and CSS gallery featuring the best web design today
- [W] Smashing Magazine: The latest trends and techniques in Web development
- [W] Variable CSS Grid System
- [W] w3schools: List of HTML tags
- [W] Web Typography: Educational Resources, Tools and Techniques
- [W] Website Design Cheat Sheets
- [W] Wirify: lets you turn any web page into a wireframe
- A Directory of Book Trade People on Twitter
- Action Comics, No. 1 / Superman
- Advice to Young Photographers
- AIGA Design Archives
- Alvin Lustig: Design Pioneer 1915-1955
- American Illustration + American Photography Directory
- An Ode To Criterion Box Art
- Archive of Comic Book Logo Lettering
- Balloon Tales!" Guide to Comic Lettering & Production
- Bembo's Zoo by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich
- Blue Note Album Covers
- Blueprints Database: The largest blueprint, 3-view and template collection on the net
- Book Plates // Seven Roads
- BRAUN designed by Dieter Rams
- Charley Harper Illustrations Flickr
- Color: COLOURlovers.com
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- Color: Pictaculous: A Color Palette Generator
- Comic Book Covers
- compfight / a flickr® search tool
- Custom Laser Engraved Moleskine Notebooks
- Custom Lettering
- Ellen Lupton DesignWritingResearch.Org
- Evolution of Logos
- FAUXGO: (fake logo) Logos of fictional companies that exist only in films
- FFFFOUND!: Image Bookmarking
- George Eastman House Photography Collection
- George Eastman House's Flickr Photostream
- Hoefler & Frere-Jones Type Foundry
- Indian Street Graphics
- Inker Linker: Printers
- Insel Verlag Book Covers
- Interactive Sketching Notation by Linowski Interaction Design
- Jacket Designs for "60 Years of the National Book Awards"
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
- LIFE magazine Cover Search
- Linotype Fontfinder
- LiveSurface image templates are high-res, pre-masked, multi-layered images with built-in 3D surfaces. They make creating finished photographic images from your artwork as quick as cut + paste.
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- Logo Lounge
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- Movie Titles Screen Page
- New York Magazine's High Priority Archive
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- Paul Rand Tribute Podcast
- Paul-Rand.com
- Playing The Beatles Backwards: The Ultimate Countdown
- Printable Paper Rulers
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- Vintage Paperback Books
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- W. W. Norton Book Design Archive
- World Digital Library
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Videos
- 50 greatest arts videos on YouTube
- 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
- A Day in the Office
- A Time Lapse Movie Out My Window at Home
- A Time Lapse Movie Out My Window at Work 01
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- Abbott and Costello's "Who's on first?" in Typography
- Al Hirschfield
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- Art of the Title Sequence, The
- Arthur Lipsett's first film-Very Nice, Very Nice
- Banksy: Graffiti Artist
- Chermayeff & Geismar Logos Animated
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- Dove Evolution of Beauty / Retouching Video
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- Eames Lounge Chair debut in 1956 on NBC [2/2]
- Encyclopedia of Vintage New York Videos
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- I Came, I Saw, I Chewed Bubble Gum.
- I want my MTV Music Videos
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- Kyle Cooper - Se7en 1995 [opening titles]
- Letterpress Documentary
- Letterpress Printing
- Michael Bierut Talks Typography
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- Muhammad Ali vs. Cleveland Williams, 1966
- Offset Printing
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- Paper Airplane Flight
- Paul Rand's Book Jackets and Covers
- Planet of the Apes, 1968 [closing scene]
- Polaroid SX-70: The Films of Charles & Ray Eames, vol. 4
- Pulp Fiction in Typography
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- Saul Bass - Vertigo 1958 [opening titles]
- Saul Bass - West Side Story 1961 [end credits]
- Shadowplay Studio - Thank You for Smoking 2005 [opening titles]
- Six Feet Under 2001 [opening titles]
- Stephen Frankfurt - To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 [opening titles]
- Submarinechannel.com // Forget the Film, Watch the Titles
- Terry Gilliam - The Fisher King 1991 [Grand Central Station Dancing Scene]
- The Flatiron Building // 4 June 1903
- The London Underground Map: BBC TV 4-Design Classics
- Time Lapse of The Queen Mary 2 arrival in Port San Francisco
- Time-lapse footage of Disneyland's construction
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- Triple Crown Super Champion SECRETARIAT-Belmont Stakes 1973
- Type Faces: What Is it? // Steven Heller & Hoefler & Frere-Jones
- Typography is what language looks like —Ellen Lupton
- Wes Anderson - The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 [opening scenes]
- What is best in life?
- Woody Allen - Manhattan 1979 [ opening scene]
- Woody Allen - Manhattan 1979 [closing scene]
- YouTube Time Machine
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About Me
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- New York City, NY, United States
- Keep walking, there's everything to see.
My Office
is on the 4th floor of the historic Flatiron Building
After every project...
My Influences
The following are some of the things that formed me as a designer early on:
Joy Division // Unknown Pleasures
by Peter Saville / 1979
Neville Brody
for his typography and dynamic layout design for his magazine, THE FACE
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- Spinning Blues Into Gold
- I Am Charlotte Simmons
- Limitations
- Winner of the National Book Award
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- The Wedding
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- Waterloo
- Underkill
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- A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
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- Stravinsky
- Betty Page Confidential
- Stranger on a Train
- Skin Game
- A Short History of Communism
- Trance: draft
- The Secret Histories
- Saudi America
- Saudi America: draft 2
- Sacrifice
- Retribution
- Passionate Spectator
- Our Vietnam
- The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
- Nelson Mandela
- The Most Fearful Ordeal
- More Than Human
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- Laws for Creations
- The Hours
- Middlesex
- Middlesex: rejected
- The Long Rain
- Little Infamies
- Little Children
- Lincoln in the Times
- Joe College
- Liars and Thieves
- Leni Riefenstahl
- The Laying On of Hands
- Knee-Deep in Wonder
- Kings of Infinite Space
- Kings of Infinite Space comps
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Inside the KGB
- Bitter Milk
- The Illuminator
- How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker
- Housebroken
- Home Land
- Hello to All That
- Hermann Hesse series // Picador
- Gilligan's Wake
- The Gift of Numbers
- Flying Leap
- Fidel Castro
- The End of Privacy
- The Empty Cage
- Double Trouble
- Darling?
- J. G. Ballard series // Picador
- An Encyclopedia of Love
- Collectors
- The Chefs of the Times
- The Best American Erotica 2003
- Angelhead
- American Purgatorio
- Accidents
- American Aurora
- All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolit...
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- My Very First Book Cover Design
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