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

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Not One Day by Anne Garreta

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Not One Day by Anne Garréta

Not One Day by Anne Garréta and translated by Emma Ramadan begins with a maxim: “Not one day without a woman.” Organized alphabetically, Not One Day explores the interplay between memory, fantasy, and desire, recounting the evanescent thrill of loves and lovers past and dismissing the ultimatum of truth in favor of an enigmatic assemblage. The second edition […]

Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories

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Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories

Edited by Ali Kinsella, Zenia Tompkins, and Ross Ufberg, this story collection featuring acclaimed, award-winning contemporary voices from Ukraine will be published in September 2022 by Deep Vellum in collaboration with TAULT, the Tompkins Agency for Ukrainian Literature in Translation. All proceeds from this collection are intended for humanitarian aid for Ukraine, and you can […]

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Thank You for Not Reading by Dubravka Ugresic

Dubravka Ugresic’s Thank You for Not Reading was due for a new printing in spring of 2022 and Open Letter Books reached out for a fresh cover design. I liked the sass in the original cover but we gravitated toward the tongue-in-cheek reference to the “Thank you for Not” signage for this edition. A little […]

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Made to Market by Sarah Stahl

Marketing guru Sarah Stahl needed a logo refresh and a book designed from cover to cover. We ended up with an energizing color palette and a bold, expressive overall design for both the book and her branding. My work on this project included branding design, book cover design, and typesetting for the hard cover, paperback, […]

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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

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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

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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.”

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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

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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.”

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Ladder to the Light by Beth Wood

Book cover design for Ladder to the Light by award-winning, singer, songwriter, and poet Beth Wood of Portland, Oregon. Published by Mezcalita Press, Ladder to the Light is the winner of the 2019 Oregon Book Awards Readers’ Choice Award and was chosen as a finalist for the 2019 Oregon Book Awards – Stafford/Hall Prize for Poetry.

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