So, as I had said, I was going to do a few posts of my favourite book cover designers (not that they only do books though). While I was going to hold off on doing the next one for a few more days, I happened to end up meeting one of them yesterday!
Paul Sahre has a workshop he does with James Victore and Jan Wilker every summer for a week, and last night was their end of the week party at the Art Directors Club (where the workshop itself takes place), so I went, as my friend Mohamed was in the workshop. So, he introduced me to Paul! We, of course, barely spoke at all because I was a scared shit who didn’t know what to say beyond “nice to meet you!” and the shake of a hand. BUT WHATEVER, ENOUGH OF THAT EMBARRASSMENT.
Paul is probably one of the most innovative book cover designers working today – along with only a handful of others – he creates beautiful covers, that to me, often feel like posters that I wish I could hang on my wall. What’s so great about his work, much like Rodrigo, and most other fantastic cover designers, is he doesn’t have a specific style pinned down to him. He has great ideas, takes risks, and in the end his covers feel very much like their own entities (of course when doing covers for the same author, such as Rick Moody, he offers vastly different imagery, while still tying in the cover as being within the body of work of that author).
please check out the rest of his phenomenal work here.
