@ Ian: Thanks for the compliments. And it's OK that you voted for another. There are a bunch of great covers on there that I prefer over mine. But not many. ;)
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.
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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sorry. I did not vote for yours, but you are still in my top 10 great cover designers in the last decade.
There were so many good ones. It was hard. I actually own one of the book covers (yours) he featured. It's a great cover and book.
He posted a lot, so it's hard to say, but I liked a few of the others in terms of originality and uniqueness...
Congratulations! Henry, you always turn out one beauty after another. -Misa Erder
@ Ian: Thanks for the compliments. And it's OK that you voted for another. There are a bunch of great covers on there that I prefer over mine. But not many. ;)
@ Misa: It's long lost you! :)
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