books

FEAST

Feast is a book I designed for AlterNet in late 2009. It’s a collection of essays about food and farming typical of the great journalism AlterNet is known for. The cover is stock art. I didn’t have the time or budget to commission an original piece, but I’m fond of the style and my clients loved it.

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ELECTRIC LITERATURE No.s 1 & 2, edited by Andy Hunter and Scott Lindenbaum

Electric Literature has been getting a lot of press lately. I wish I could take credit for that, but I just design it. Most of the brilliance of Electric Literature is in its multiple formats—iPhone app, Kindle, eBook, print-on-demand softcover—and the clever marketing direction. Oh, and the

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new magazines

In 2008, I started to art direct and design Artillery magazine, a bimonthly art mag distributed in Los Angeles and New York City. I redesigned the feature well for the first issue, and we’ve been consistently tweaking the magazine each issue. In early 2010, we’ll be introducing a new design and magazine size. Here are some samples from the last year…

Above, cover and spread from the November-December issue of Artillery.

This issue was seen on E!, I forget which show, but they came to the issue launch party to interview Susan Anderson, the photographer whose work appears on the cover.

Cover and spread I created for the Art and depression issue.

Cover art by Jeff Sonhouse.

Cover and feature spread from the first

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About

My name’s Bill Smith, and I specialize in print graphic design - particularly books and magazines. I also handle web and marketing projects from creative to production.

designSimple is based in Los Angeles, but I work with clients and presses across the country and abroad. Through affiliates, I can also offer copyediting, proofreading, illustration, photography and photo retouching services.

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