I love this picture - it's on the cover of CMYK magazine, which archives "top-level graduate work in advertising, design, photography and illustration."
Basically, you submit your work and if you win you get published in the magazine and your work reaches a lot more people than if you're just answering job ads.
Aspiring book designers are among those whose work is featured in CMYK. You can buy the magazine at Borders.
This issue (on sale now) has an article on self-publishing.
Originally published on Sunday, 30th January, 2005 in StarMag.
SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE TIME: A YEAR OF PASSIONATE READING
By Sara Nelson
Publisher: Berkley Books
(ISBN: 0425198197)
Finally, an easy-to-read book about books, written for those who love to read books.
THE YELLOW-LIGHTED BOOKSHOP:
A MEMOIR, A HISTORY
By Lewis Buzbee
Publisher: Graywold Press, 216 pages
(ISBN: 978-1555974503)
Dec 2009: Minfong Ho, illustrated by Holly Meade: Hush!: A Thai Lullaby
A Thai lullaby is the basis of Minfong Ho's soothing rhymes in this bedtime book. A mother rocks her baby to sleep and begs various animals to be quiet for the sake of the sleeping child. The animals make Thai-animal noises, that will sound and feel unique to Malaysian ears and tongues - for example, "Jeed-jeed," says a Thai mouse and "Hoom-praa" goes a Thai elephant. The illustrations, which won a Caldecott honor in 1997, are done with paper collage and depict Thai culture and simple rural life in a variety of earthy colours and interesting textures. "Hush!" was a Caldecott Medal Honor book in 1997. (*****)
