Can I See Your ID? – Blue Cover

With any book in the publishing industry, the cover is always very important and a lot of things are tried out before reaching the final result. So it's not unusual that we made a last minute change to the cover for Chris Barton's Can I See Your ID?, coming out in April from Dial Books for Young Readers

Reverting to the initial version that I suggested, we changed the color scheme to a blue one. I liked the red version, but then I think the new one is a bit more ominous rather than aggressive. I kind of like them both, so I'm glad that Dial made the final call.

Thanks again to Designer Jasmin Rubero for working so hard with me on it. The book is now available for pre-order from Amazon, and IndieBound and will be in stores April 2010!

Einzigartig Calender by Slanted

Still looking for a calendar for 2010? I have a suggestion for you: Einzigartig, presented by Freistil and Slanted.de, in which illustrators have interpreted 52 fonts in their own unique way. Each page is on heavy paper and can be torn out and used as a postcard, if you want to send out illustrated greetings. You canfind out more about it here.
My contribution is Basalt, for which I have created a cross-section drawing (below; click to enlarge).

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Typography 1 class

On a very short and spontaneous note, I have just started to teach a Typography 1 course in the Advertising Design & Graphic Arts program of the New York City College of Technology. I look forward to fun and games with Serifs, Sans-serifs, and ... Egyptians!

Hymns

For the the Bavarian Newspaper Sonntagsblatt, I illustrated two hymns.
Since part of the assignment was to include the lyrics and the sheet music, I had fun playing around with the typography as image, and used illustration only as a framing device.

ID Magazine

I did multiple images for ID Magazine last week, for its forth Annual Business Issue. I'll post more on this as the isse comes out. Here's a small preview... Thanks to Thomas Porostocky at ID!

Type Workshop

Thanks to Marshall Arisman, his students and the MFA Illustration program for the great opportunity to teach the Type for Illustrators workshop this and last week. I had a blast, and I hope everybody enjoyed it as much as I did.

MFA Illustration Type Workshop

I'll be teaching a Type Workshop for Illustrators in the SVA MFA Illustration program this and next wednesday. Very much looking forward to it! (Illustrated letters courtesy of various Rabid Rabbit artists)