Left: Inhabited Initial D, 1153, Unknown. Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink. Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig IX 1 (83.ML.97), fol. 212v. Right: Book cover design: Charlotte Strick. Illustration: Lindsay Meyer-Beug
Art Break: Don’t Judge. Designing Book Covers
ONLINE ONLY
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“Don’t judge a book by its cover” is a familiar adage, but we frequently, and almost inescapably, do judge books this way. Join us for a conversation between curator Larisa Grollemond and renowned graphic designer and art director Charlotte Strick. Their casual online conversation will explore color, typography, and composition, as well as the many stylistic influences at play for 21st-century book cover designers versus their medieval artisan predecessors, whose work is showcased in the exhibition Graphic Design in the Middle Ages.
Speakers
Larisa Grollemond is assistant curator in the department of Manuscripts at the Getty Center. She is the curator of Graphic Design in the Middle Ages, on view through January 28, 2024.
Charlotte Strick spent 14 years as a book jacket designer turned art director at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She co-founded Strick&Williams, an award-winning, women-led, Brooklyn-based design firm offering branding, copywriting, and strategy to mission driven non-profits and clients primarily in publishing, education, and the arts. The studio’s print and digital rebrand of The Paris Review won numerous accolades; for over a decade, Charlotte served as The Review’s art director and art editor. She maintains an independent design practice which includes creative direction, editorial illustration, image editing and curation, as well as writing about art and design, and private fine art consultancy. Headshot: © Edwin Tse