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The
Bookbuilders event on February 29, “Judge A Book by Its Cover,” was highly
informative and entertaining! Three very creative speakers illustrated the
process of designing book covers. Alex Camlin, the Creative Director at Da Capo
Press, Carol Chu, Associate Art Director at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s
Books, and George Restrepo, a locally based graphic designer, all brought
students in Pub Club and others into their creative process.
The event
started off with Alex Camlin, who has worked at Da Capo for eleven years. He
began by emphasizing his personal style, which leaned more toward graphic art
and away from photography. In going through the different phases of cover
design for Jack Kerouac’s The Sea is My Brother, Camlin stressed looking at the
styles of several of Kerouac’s other titles, such as On The Road.
