Mark Abrams is a book-cover designer for Vintage Books, the paperback wing of Knopf. A lifelong New Yorker, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and toddler.
Keira Alexandra is the founder of Employee Number 1, a nimble team of directors, strategists, and motion designers.
Geetika Alok is an independent graphic designer and typographer interested in relationships between design and culture. Her work has been featured in Wallpaper*, Creative Review, and Grafik. Alok graduated from the Royal College of Art with an M.A. in communication, art, and design.
Suzene Ang is a professional creative with an interest in book-cover design.
April was founded in 2009 in London by Lisa Sjukur and Joana Niemeyer. The multidisciplinary design company works with international clients on books, magazines, identities, exhibition graphics, and new-media projects. April also publishes its own books, such as Graphic USA, Graphic Europe, The Inspirational Moustache, and Ping Pong.
Helen Armstrong is assistant professor of graphic design at Miami University; principal and creative director of Strong Design; author and designer of Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field; and coauthor with Zvezdana Stojmirovic of Participate: Designing with User-Generated Content.
Aleksander Bąk is a freelance graphic designer in Poland who works in visual advertising and direct marketing. An independent designer, he has held creative positions at various advertising agencies. He specializes in visual communication, with a focus on logo design. He is a member of the KTR Poland (Advertising Creators Club).
Rachel Berger is a graphic designer in Oakland, California.
Laura Berglund is a graphic designer at Design Ranch in Kansas City. Her work has been published in HOW magazine, Communication Arts, Design. Work. Life., the Dieline, and elsewhere.
Michael Bierut is a partner in the New York office of the international design consultancy Pentagram, a senior critic at the Yale School of Art, and a cofounder of the website Design Observer.
Stephen H. Blackwell is the author of Zina’s Paradox: The Figured Reader in Nabokov’s Gift (1999) and The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov’s Art and the Worlds of Science (2009). With Kurt Johnson, he is coediting a book on Nabokov’s science and art (2014).
Kelly Blair is a book-jacket designer for Knopf and an illustrator. She lives in Brooklyn.
Barbara Bloom is an artist whose work has been shown internationally, including exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Venice Biennale; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Collections of Barbara Bloom, 2008, was published by Steidl/ICP. The Jewish Museum, in New York, held an exhibition of her work in March 2013.
Davis Carr is a Canadian designer working in the National Capital Region. She specializes in document design and online communications for nonprofits and social enterprises.
Siân Cook is a designer, and an educator at London College of Communication. Her design clients have included a variety of charities and arts organizations. Cook is also a graphic activist in HIV/AIDS health promotion and codirector of the Women’s Design + Research Unit, based in London.
Sara Cwynar is an artist, illustrator, and graphic designer at The New York Times Magazine. Cwynar is represented by Cooper Cole Gallery, in Toronto. She was one of Print magazine’s New Visual Artists for 2011.
Barbara deWilde is a graphic designer and interaction designer. Her book jackets, for an entire library of authors—from Austen and Nabokov to Achebe and Updike—have been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Art Directors Club, and the Type Directors Club. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Matt Dorfman is a New York–based graphic designer and illustrator, and the current art director of The New York Times’ Op-Ed page.
Johanna Drucker is a writer and artist known for her work in experimental typography, digital humanities, and the history of artists’ books. Her books include Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide, with Emily McVarish (2008); and The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination (1995).
David Drummond is founder and principal of Salamander Hill Design, based in Elgin, Quebec. The studio’s projects include posters, book covers, promotional materials, magazine illustration, packaging, and identity development.
Hilary Drummond is completing a master’s degree in book and digital-media studies at Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Like Nabokov, she suffers gladly from synesthesia and is interested in the ways that text, image, color, and design can be experienced, translated, and unified.
Leland de la Durantaye is the author of Style Is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov and Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction.
Aliza Dzik is an art director at MTWTF. She received a B.A. in literature from Yale University and an M.F.A. in graphic design from the Yale University School of Art. She has received awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts and has been published by Grafik magazine and Chronicle Books.
Vivienne Flesher has created books and covers for Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Penguin; Random House; Harvard; and the Yolla Bolly Press. She has illustrated for the Kennedy Center, American Express, Elle France, and The New York Times, and her drawings have appeared on stamps for the U.S. Postal Service and posters for the Arena Stage.
John Fulbrook III is the creative director and senior vice president at the Martin Agency.
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin and Veronica, and the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don’t Cry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, the Best American Short Stories series, and the O. Henry Prize Stories collection. She is currently the Trias Writer in Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
John Gall is the creative director for Abrams Books. Previously, he spent fifteen years as art director for Vintage and Anchor books. He is also an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts.
Xavi Garcia is a multidisciplinary designer and illustrator from Salamanca, Spain, who lives and works in New York City. He studied at Central Saint Martins, in London, and also holds a degree in international commerce.
David A. Gee is the creative director of the Toronto International Film Festival, the owner of Knob & Tube design studio, an award-winning book designer, and a father of two.
Elena Giavaldi is an Italian book-cover designer based in New York City. She started designing book jackets in 2005 and has since worked for numerous leading publishers, including Knopf; Penguin; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Mondadori; and Rizzoli. She is a senior designer at Crown-Random House.
Kate Gibb is a graphic artist primarily working with silkscreen. She has a background in printed textiles and a love of color and pattern. Commercially, she’s renowned for her album covers.
Walter Green is a graphic designer and illustrator living and working in New York City. He is the art director of Lucky Peach magazine.
Elena Grossman is a graphic designer and educator based in Middletown, Connecticut. She has worked with clients including ArtSpace, Cabinet magazine, and Yale University.
Lyuba Haleva received her M.A. in poster and visual communication from the National Academy of Art, in Sofia, Bulgaria, and works as an artist and graphic designer. She experiments with various media and processes and mixes traditional elements with modern technology.
Kat Hammill currently works as a senior design manager for West Elm. Previously, she was design director at Aesthetic Movement and founding partner of the award-winning studio goodesign. Her work has been featured in numerous design publications and recognized by the AIGA. She has been selected as one of Print magazine’s New Visual Artists.
Lauren Harden and Seth Ferris make up ANDAND, a Los Angeles–based studio that collaborates with cultural and for-profit institutions alike. Their studio focuses on research, print, identity, exhibition, type, and interactive design.
Margot Harrington is a graphic designer, entrepreneur, and teacher in Chicago. She founded her studio, Pitch Design Union, in 2008. She works equally in digital and analog media.
The Heads of State is the decade-long partnership of Jason Kernevich and Dustin Summers. They’ve created award-winning posters, book covers, branding systems, and illustrations for a diverse list of clients. In 2012, they launched Pilot and Captain, a design venture focused on creating products inspired by the golden age of travel. They live and work in Philadelphia, where they also teach graphic design and illustration at Tyler School of Art.
Jessica Helfand is an award-winning designer, writer, and experimental filmmaker who teaches art and film studies at Yale University. Her serialized biography of Ezra Winter was published in 2012 on Design Observer, where she is a founding editor.
Jennifer Heuer is a book-cover designer and illustrator working from the Pencil Factory in Brooklyn. Her clients have included Knopf, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, W. W. Norton, and The New York Times.
Jessica Hische is a letterer and illustrator. Her internet-based side projects include Daily Drop Cap, Should I Work for Free?, and Don’t Fear the Internet, and she has done work for the likes of Wes Anderson and Penguin Books.
Karen Hsu is a founding partner of Omnivore. She received a B.F.A. in graphic design from Oregon State University and an M.F.A. in graphic design from the Yale University School of Art.
Agata Jakubowska, an artist specializing in painting, drawing, and silkscreen, holds a master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts, Poland, and has participated in many group art exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Since 2007 she has worked in design and illustration and runs her own one-person branding and design studio.
Daniel Justi is a graphic and type designer from São Paulo, Brazil. He works in visual identity and editorial design (especially of books) and leads a small type foundry.
Jamie Keenan established his own studio in 1998 and has worked for a mixture of European and American publishers. His work has been recognized by D&AD and the AIGA, among others, and he has discussed and exhibited his work at the School of Visual Arts, for the BNO in the Netherlands, at the British Library, and as part of the Edinburgh Literary Festival.
Philip Kelly currently operates his studio from Auckland, New Zealand, while working for clients internationally. His output for clients large and small encompasses many aspects of visual communications, including graphic design, art direction, typography, custom lettering, and photography.
Ely Kim is an art director, dancer, and Reiki-certified healer based in New York. He received his B.F.A. from Art Center College of Design and his M.F.A. from Yale.
Marina Mills Kitchen is a graphic designer currently based in New Haven, Connecticut, where she is earning her M.F.A. in graphic design at the Yale School of Art. Before attending graduate school, she was the studio manager of Project Projects, in New York City.
Gregg Kulick is a graphic designer who works for Penguin Books and lives in Brooklyn.
Chin-Yee Lai is a designer who enjoys all aspects of book design. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two daughters.
Mark Lazenby is a collage artist, illustrator, and graphic designer. His work has been exhibited around the world and published in The Guardian, Time, GQ, The New York Times, Gestalten, The Ride Journal, The Independent, Wired, WPP, Vogue, The Times, Time Out, The Telegraph, The Globe and Mail, House & Garden, Dazed & Confused, Drapers, and Nylon, among others.
Sueh Li Tan is a graphic and type designer based in Malaysia. She holds a master’s degree from the Type and Media program at the Royal Academy of Art, in The Hague, the Netherlands. She has collaborated with Sara de Bondt, Zak Group, and Martin Fröstner in custom-type projects.
Ellen Lupton is the senior curator of contemporary design at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. Lupton also serves as the director of the M.F.A. graphic-design program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art), where she has authored numerous books on design processes, including Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, and Graphic Design: The New Basics.
Paul Maliszewski is the author of Fakers, a book of essays, and Prayer and Parable, a collection of stories.
Mary Voorhees Meehan is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer who often makes announcements, exhibitions, books, identities, and websites. She sometimes makes stories of her own stuff, sometimes the stuff of others. She studied architecture at Princeton University and received her M.F.A. in graphic design from the Yale School of Art.
Mark Melnick is a book designer in New York City.
Peter Mendelsund is the associate art director of Knopf Books, the art director of Pantheon Books and Vertical Press, and a recovering classical pianist. His writing on literature, design, and other matters can be found on his blog, Jacket Mechanical.
Debbie Millman is president of the design division at Sterling Brands, where she has worked on the redesign of over 200 global brands. She is the author of five books on design and branding, president emeritus of the AIGA, contributing editor at Print magazine, and cofounder and chair of the master’s in branding program at the School of Visual Arts. She hosts the weekly Internet-radio talk show “Design Matters with Debbie Millman.”
Razvan Mitoiu is a Romanian art director and full-time artist living and working in Slovakia; the creator of many book covers, illustrations, paintings, and sculptures; and the winner of Venus Febriculosa’s The Name of the Rose book-cover contest.
Dan Mogford has been a graphic designer since graduating from Central Saint Martins, in London, in 1995. His love of books has seen him concentrate on their design almost exclusively for the last ten years.
Oliver Munday is a graphic designer living and working in New York City. His work has been recognized by many major design organizations including Communication Arts, the Type Directors Club, Step magazine (25 freshest minds in design), the Art Directors Club (Young Guns 7), AIGA (50 Books/50 Covers), and Print (2010 New Visual Artists).
Susan Murphy holds a B.A. in visual communications and a master’s degree in advertising design. Originally Irish, she resides in New York City, where she is an art director at Ogilvy & Mather. She was previously a multidisciplinary designer at Edenspiekermann, in the Netherlands.
Catherine Nippe is a London-based, Swiss–German graphic designer who has run her own studio since 2006. Her work focuses on books and brand identities, and many of her projects sit within the fields of fashion, design, art and architecture.
Linn Olofsdotter is an independent artist based in Portland, Oregon. She is a former art director at a big agency and was previously codirector of a small design studio.
Ingrid Paulson is an award-winning book and magazine designer. She lives in Toronto.
David Pearson studied at Central Saint Martins, in London, before joining Penguin Books as typographer and, later, cover designer. He established his own studio, Type as Image, in 2007. He has won numerous awards for book design and has been listed as one of Britain’s top fifty designers by the Guardian. He is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
Ellen Pifer is the author of numerous publications, many discussing Nabokov’s fiction. Her published works include Nabokov and the Novel, Demon or Doll: Images of the Child in Contemporary Writing and Culture, Lolita: A Casebook, and three dozen articles. She is working on a book project to be called More Than America: Fiction and the Force-Field of American Culture.
Jason Polan is a Michigan-born artist living in New York City. He has exhibited work throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is a member of the 53rd Street Biological Society and the Taco Bell Drawing Club. Polan is currently drawing every person in New York City. His drawings and projects have appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, and ARTnews. He has done projects with Levi’s, West Elm, and the Ford Foundation.
Emmanuel Polanco is an artist living in Paris. He works with international magazines and newspapers (Time, The Los Angeles Times, Philosophie), publishers (Random House, Penguin, Gallimard), and theaters (the Royal Shakespeare Company). He is also an author and illustrator of children’s books.
Andy Pressman is a graphic designer based in both Portland, Oregon, and New York City. He is principal of the design studio Rumors and art director of Verso Books and Bidoun magazine.
Laurie Rosenwald is an animator, designer, and illustrator. She is also a writer and humorist. Her motto is “No job too big, no job too small, no job too medium.” She draws for The New Yorker and holds How to Make Mistakes on Purpose workshops. She animated David’s Diary, an app whose content is written by David Sedaris.
Tanya Rubbak is a graphic designer based in Los Angeles. She creates work in collaborative settings, focusing on publications and other printed and digital matter in the spaces between design, art, performance, and authorship. She is a senior lecturer at Otis School of Art and Design, and holds an M.F.A. from CalArts in graphic design and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in English literature.
Paula Scher has been at the forefront of American graphic design for over four decades. She is a principal in the New York office of the distinguished international design consultancy Pentagram and the author of Make It Bigger (2002) and Maps (2011).
Ward Schumaker has created calligraphy for Hermès, United Airlines, Le Figaro, The New York Times, and Studio Hinrichs. His personal work, which often includes calligraphy, has been shown in Shanghai, New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Diane Shaw began her career working with Tibor Kalman on projects for the Museum of Modern Art, The New York Times Magazine, and the Standard Hotel. With Kat Hammill she started goodesign (which merged to form Aesthetic Movement), collaborating with institutions such as the Bronx Museum and the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been recognized by AIGA, Print magazine, Communication Arts, and others.
Yuko Shimizu is a New York–based illustrator. Her first children’s book, Barbed Wire Baseball, was published by Abrams in 2012, and her first self-titled monograph was released by Gestalten in 2011. She was chosen in 2009 as one of the one-hundred most-respected Japanese people by Newsweek Japan.
Isaac Tobin is a senior designer at the University of Chicago Press, with numerous awards to his credit, including AIGA 50/50, ADC Young Guns, the Type Directors Club, and Print magazine Regional Design Annual. He grew up in Hawaii and lives in Chicago with his wife and dog.
Transfer Studio is an independent design practice, directed by Valeria Hedman and Falko Grentrup, with offices in London and Stockholm. Their distinctive approach to graphic design has given the studio a reputation for imaginative, simple, yet thoughtful work for cultural and corporate clients alike.
Teal Triggs is professor of graphic design and the associate dean of the Royal College of Art’s School of Communication. She is the author of Fanzines (2010) and The Typographic Experiment (2003) and the coeditor of Graphic Design: A Reader (2014). Triggs is codirector of the Women’s Design + Research Unit, based in London.
Alice Twemlow is chair of the M.F.A. in Design Criticism program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and a Ph.D. candidate in the history of design at the Royal College of Art in London.
Anne Ulku is a graphic designer from Minneapolis, Minnesota, whose work includes typography and lettering, brand and identity design, print and pattern design, and illustration.
Jenny Volvovski, a native of Russia, is a designer for ALSO, a three-person studio with a flair for the unexpected.
Michel Vrana, a former comic-book publisher, is now a book designer living in Toronto.
Jen Wang is a designer living in the Bay Area. Her hobbies include making papier-mâché masks.
Chip Wass is a designer and illustrator based in Baltimore, Maryland. His clients include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Disney, ESPN, Random House, and Penguin Books, among others. He has received awards from American Illustration, the Society of Publication Design, AIGA’s 50 Books/50 Covers, and Print magazine.
Sam Weber was born in Alaska and grew up in Deep River, Ontario. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, he moved to New York City to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at the School of Visual Arts. His studio is in Brooklyn.
Adrienne Weiss is a graphic designer living in New York City.
Duncan White is the coeditor of the essay collection Transitional Nabokov (2009) and will be publishing a monograph, tentatively titled Nabokov’s Bibliopoetics, later this year. He received his D.Phil from the University of Oxford in 2011. He lives in Boston.
Gabriele Wilson began her career as a book-jacket designer at Alfred A. Knopf. She now runs Gabriele Wilson Design, whose projects include publication, identity, packaging, restaurant, and Web design. She is an instructor at Parsons the New School for Design and a former board member of AIGA NY.
Ben Wiseman is an illustrator and designer based in New York City.
Graham Wood is a founding member of Tomato; former executive creative director for visual communication of JWT New York; and former head of art of JWT London. His clients have included Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Levis, Sony, Ford, Porsche, Lexus, MTV, VH1, BBC, Microsoft, and Pepsi. He is the recipient of numerous awards, and his work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Henry Sene Yee is the creative director of Picador Books, a teacher at the School of Visual Arts, in New York City, and an award-winning book-cover designer and photographer.
Dieter E. Zimmer is the curator of Covering Lolita and the author of several books on Nabokov, including A Guide to Nabokov’s Butterflies and Moths, Nabokov reist im Traum in das Innere Asiens, and Wirbelsturm Lolita—Auskünfte zu einem epochalen Roman. He has translated most of the works of Nabokov into the German language.
Anna Żukowska-Zyśko is a recent graphic-design graduate from the Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej in Lublin, Poland. Her work has been included in exhibitions in Poland and abroad.