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Jen Blair Design

Jen Blair designs engaging print and online experiences with emphasis in publication design, branding, websites, and illustration.

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Publication Design

Publication Design Book Cover, Typesetting

Writing Gifts presented by Naomi Shihab Nye & Austin Bat Cave

Client: Austin Bat Cave Collaborators: Naomi Shihab Nye & Emily ChammahPrinter: Spencer Printing Inc. This little beauty of a book radiates warmth and positivity. My concept for Writing Gifts required some die cutting and I started out sketching how the book would fold open. I wanted something that mindfully involved the process of opening the […]

Dispatches from the Republic of Letters

Publication Design Book Cover

Dispatches from the Republic of Letters

This handsome hardcover anthology features the literary world’s finest from Gabriel García Marquez to Edwidge Danticat. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, this book collects writings by the prize’s laureates over the years. I remained minimal in the design for this anthology leading with bold lettering and a […]

In the Days of Our Undoing: book cover with a golden yellow watercolor wash and typography

Publication Design Book Cover, Illustration

In the Days of Our Undoing

In the Days of Our Undoing: September – November 2020 is the third book in a series that documents the odyssey of the poet and singer-songwriter, Nathan Brown, as he explores the new world of “no more live gigs.”

Publication Design Design, Magazine

Magazine Covers – World Literature Today

These covers for World Literature Today span from 2018 to 2020, and my involvement in all of these includes art direction, typography, and design. I also directed the photoshoots for the covers with Margarita Engle, Edwidge Danticat, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the illustrations for the Graphic Nonfiction and Hong Kong covers. The Music & Lit […]

Publication Design Design, Magazine, Typesetting

Magazine Design and Layout – World Literature Today

The following selections feature some of the editorial designs I did through the years as the art director for Word Literature Today. A hybrid literary journal and magazine, WLT balances between satisfying its longtime subscribers and attracting new readers who aren’t necessarily aficionados on what’s trending in international literature. I worked with the BEST editors […]

Publication Design Book Cover

In the Days of Our Unrest

In the Days of Our Unrest: June – August 2020 is the second book in a series that documents the odyssey of the poet and singer-songwriter, Nathan Brown, as he explores the new world of “no more live gigs.”

Book cover with teal watercolor wash and typography

Publication Design Book Cover

In the Days of Our Seclusion

In the Days of Our Seclusion: March – May 2020 is the first book in a series that documents the odyssey of the poet and singer-songwriter, Nathan Brown, as he explores the new world of “no more live gigs.”

Publication Design Book Cover, Illustration, Typesetting

Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses contains fourteen short stories as well as Karen Russell’s lesson plan and writing prompts for her generative workshop on Metamorphoses that she taught for Austin Bat Cave. I drew the cover illustration in Procreate and designed the entire book from cover to cover. It was a pleasure collaborating with Karen Russell and Ali Haider, and […]

Publication Design Album Artwork

Good Farmer by Chris & Adam Carroll

Another lovely collaboration with Austin-area musicians. Austin Music Hall of Fame musician Jon Dee Graham painted the cover art for this album and I completed the typography, typesetting, and design. You can listen to a preview track for the album on Americana Highways.

Publication Design Album Artwork, Vinyl

I Walked In Them Shoes by Adam Carroll

I Walked In Them Shoes is Americana singer-songwriter Adam Carroll’s eighth solo album release, coming out just a few years after the tribute album Highway Prayer: A Tribute to Adam Carroll was released with covers by James McMurtry, Hayes Carll, Slaid Cleaves, Terri Hendrix, Walt Wilkins, and a dozen other artists. This album is another visual collaboration with […]

Publication Design Book Cover

Don’t Try by Jon Dee Graham and Nathan Brown

Don’t Try is a poetry collection by former Oklahoma poet laureate Nathan Brown and three-time Austin Music Hall-of-Famer Jon Dee Graham. Drawing inspiration from writer Charles Bukowski—the “laureate of American lowlife”—the collection features a photograph of the two authors with the specter of Bukowski illuminated behind them. Cover photo by Rodney Bursiel in the Continental Club Gallery […]

Publication Design Annual Report, Marketing Collateral

Path to Excellence Annual Report

My work on the University of Oklahoma Libraries’ marketing collateral over the past seven years has won the 2018 Oklahoma Museum Associate Award for the University of Oklahoma Libraries Spring 2018 Sooner Horizons quarterly publication, and the 2017 American Library Association PR XChange Award for the OU Libraries Path to Excellence: 2015-2016 Progress Report. The following are a few […]

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Publications, branding, marketing collateral, illustration, infographics, advertising, event graphics, and more.

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Web design and development, and web-centric design for email campaigns and social media creative.

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