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March of the Penguin

Wednesday February 21, 2007

I was fortunate to catch Paul Buckley’s presentation at the Type Director’s Club recently.

Paul, the Executive Creative Director for Penguin presented an amusing and informative look at his work — from early art school paintings to his award winning Penguin book covers. In addition to his own work, Paul introduced the other Penguin creatives and discussed in short detail some of the methods used to arrive at the final designs. All very interesting — especially the designs that were rejected and the reasons for the rejections.

Amusing sidenote: in his correspondence with Robert Crumb, Paul described how Robert doesn’t actually email, but instead scrawls a note on some paper, has his assistant scan it and then emails the jpeg. That works.