Books Covered by Tobias

Late-Night: Willie Nelson Book on with Conan

Last night Conan O'Brien had music legend Willie Nelson on with his new novel, A Tale Out of Luck. Pretty cool since I designed the cover. This is the first time I've had a cover on anything other than one of the cable news channels. If you are interested, you can see the clip on hulu, starting at 00:26.

Here are a few screen grabs:

He was also on CBS with Harry Smith:

Authonomy

Is this where publishing is headed?
Harper Collins has introduced a social networking site for authors. The gist of it is this: submit your story and let readers decided if it is good or not. The most popular will rise to the top of the list. Harper Collins doesn't promise to publish any of the stories, but "has promised to read the Top 10 every month." [via]

Embrace Limitations, and other things you can learn from good book design

A nice write-up on the Aussie blog Lifehacker about the what can be learned from good book design. To me, the highlight is something that I have always believed to be very true:

Embrace limitations
A design concept has to work within practical parameters: textbooks need to be clearly segmented into sub-sections, recipe books have to make the recipes themselves stand out from other material. The same applies in the world of tech: there's no point trying to render a highly detailed photograph on a tiny screen. But rather than kicking against those restrictions, you should actively embrace them. "Limitations can make you a good designer sometimes," Lavecchia said.