Extended Stay cover!
The book will be out in spring 2023 from the Camino del Sol series by University of Arizona Press! I love the cover so much & I’m so happy I can share it now.
Convergences: What We See When We Remember Keyholes in Covers
I'm very much looking forward to reading Peter Mendelsund's What We See When We Read. Mendelsund is a terrific book designer, so his thoughts on what happens to our brain on books -- what we visualize -- should be fun. (Here's an excerpt that touches on Anna Karenina.) I was also surprised when I saw the cover for his book:
Because here's the first thing it reminded of:
The keyhole motif is not that uncommon -- here's what Google Images pulls up when you do the search -- but to the question, What do you see when you look at the cover for What We See When We Read? The answer is: A former ballerina's book-length memoir about a particular sexual act.
Sarah made me this awesome 3d card for our belated valentine's day.
Our Save-the-Date Card (in color)
Here's the final color version of our save-the-date card.
Our Save-the-Date Card!
We've designed our Save-the-Date card, Sarah and me! For our very small Kentucky wedding! We're super proud of it, and we wanted to share the results. We used MS Word, for to we have no fancy Adobe products on our computer, and we were too bathroby for the graduate-lounge computer lab.