![]() And if the author is a particularly gifted writer, there’s so many covers there because there’s a lot of visual metaphors that I can riff on. When I design a book cover I have to listen to a lot of people-marketing, agents-but the first voice I listen to is the author’s voice. ![]() I read someplace that dyslexics often read with more inference, which makes total sense, because that’s what I do. “I invert things all the time,” says Twomey, “which is normal for people who are visual thinkers. It was a noteworthy turn of events for someone who realized later in life that she’s dyslexic. She enjoyed designing the covers more than anything else, and soon parlayed her talent and experience into a position at Simon & Schuster’s paperback imprint, Pocket Books. “I liked the immediacy of graphic design at that time,” Twomey recalls. So, she took classes in typography and paste-ups and mechanicals at the School for the Visual Arts, which led to jobs with a type designer and in a design studio.Īt the design studio, she worked on catalogs, ads, and the occasional book cover for the firm’s publishing clients. In New York City, she passed the union exams to become a set designer, but she still needed to complete a required course in lighting design-that wouldn’t be offered for a year-before applying to union jobs. Twomey studied art history, printmaking, sculpture, and photography in college, but earned a BFA in painting because it was the most challenging major that taught her the largest skill set. Pre-internet, you really had to be in New York City to be a designer. “And I wanted to pursue an artistic career-I was very clear about that. “I always loved the city lights,” Twomey remembers. And it was too scary!”īut for the Long Island native and SUNY New Paltz graduate, there was no other choice. I lived two blocks from CBGB but never went because I thought it was too scary. “It was not a pretty sight,” Anne Twomey, Creative Director of Celadon Books, says of downtown Manhattan and the “crumbling-walled, walk-up tenement” she moved into after college in 1979.
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