the latest
New issue of Mean magazine is out. Includes a pictorial where Bill Hader plays Bad Lieutenant featuring artwork by Kurt Iswarienko and Sean Phillips.
Feral House’s Dope Menace, by Stephen J. Gertz is now out. It’s a collection of drug-themed pulp covers, and was a lot of fun to design. DM recently got a mention in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
New issue of Artillery magazine is on the streets. Will post a cover and layouts here soon.
Other stuff in the works for winter, but the biggest news is designSimple is expanding. More on that soon!

Thanks for visiting.
—Bill Smith
books

A couple projects back from press in early 2008. The first, a book from Feral House titled Secession.
This book, written by Thomas H. Naylor, is about the feasibility of states seceding from the union.
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Another title, Brooklyn Review 25, done for CUNY’s Brooklyn College, is somewhere between a book and a journal. Worked with editor/writer Andy Hunter on this. The cover is an amazing piece of art by Alison Elizabeth Taylor done entirely in wood, a technique known as marquetry.




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2007 books included a hard-cover coffee table book for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press and three soft-covers for Process Media:
MY HEART VS. THE REAL