Don’t feel bad; you’re supposed to. But how are design choices made, and who holds the power to make them? In Book Dream’s first double-guest episode, Eve and Julie discuss and challenge conventions of book design with Ellen Lupton, graphic designer, writer, and educator, and Reif Larsen, author of “The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet.”
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
“The novel is a cabinet of wonders, an odyssey of self-discovery, a family romance, a symphony of topography, geology and American history. The book hardly seems able to stay between its covers, bulging as it is with so many astonishments, so many crossings of fictional lines.”
—Bookpage
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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, by Reif Larsen
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (audio book), by Reif Larsen
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Graphic Design MFA Program, Maryland Institute College of Art
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, NYC
AIGA Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement
Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie, by Julie Sternberg
The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
Anne Schwartz, Schwartz and Wade, Reif Larsen’s Publisher
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women 2019 film, by Greta Gerwig