“Well, you can’t make a living doing jackets, you know.”
Over 5,000 book jackets later, Paul Bacon is one of the most prominent book design artists of his generation. He sat down with us to discuss all things design.
An Out of Print interview with Paul Bacon.
What was the most memorable project or cover that you worked with, or author?
Catch 22, I would have to say, because it was the most difficult. I did twelve sketches for that.
Vincent Price reads.
One of our favorite book covers
Favorite line from The Little Prince.
A self-portrait of William James from his diary and sketchbook, recently digitized by Harvard.
More sneak peeks inside the sketchbooks of...
Pictorial endpapers populated by library artifacts.
From My Book House, v. 1, edited by Olive Beaupré Miller (1920). Does not include metadata...
Donna Meagle of Parks And Recreation reading Fifty Shades Of Grey by E.L. James
