Making the cover: The Fallback Plan
Sometimes when you set out to design a new book, you get lucky and nail it on your first try. Other times, it takes a long process to reach a… 2 / Read more »
Christopher King
Christopher King is the Art Director of Melville House.
SLIDE SHOW … Making the cover: The Last Interview
Starting a new series design is always a fun challenge—each book in the series needs to stand on its own, but the set should add up to more than the… Read more »
Notes on Design: Lord of the Flies
This year marks the centennial of William Golding’s birth, and to celebrate, his publishers in the US and UK are releasing centenary editions of Lord of the Flies with a new… 1 / Read more »
Making the cover: How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive
Among the pleasures of designing the wide variety of books we publish at Melville House, perhaps the best is getting to immerse myself in so many different cultures. Whether it’s… 2 / Read more »
Notes on design: Design and Fall
Penguin UK has unveiled a new addition to its already robust series of, well, series. Beginning with eight books by Evelyn Waugh (and eventually to include more titles and authors),… Read more »
Notes on design: Through Irish eyes
Today, fans of Irish literature are descending on Dublin to relive the events of Ulysses and honor the memory of Ireland’s most famous literary export, James Joyce. But how can… Read more »
Making the cover: The Neversink Library
Not long after I came onboard as art director here at Melville House, our publisher Dennis came to me with an idea for a new series. Conceived in order to… Read more »
Notes on design: Pole position
Ask any book designer these days who counts among his or her greatest influences, and certain names are bound to come up: most likely, you’ll hear about Alvin Lustig and Paul… 2 / Read more »
Making the cover: The Lake
As my colleague Jason mentioned earlier this week, here at Melville House we couldn’t be more excited about the launch of Banana Yoshimoto’s incredible new novel, The Lake. Among book… Read more »
Notes on design: A good yarn
The quirky British publishing upstart Visual Editions have been making a lot of headlines over the past few months with their newest book, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes. (And… 2 / Read more »