Gray Love. 0

My favorite author, Jonathan Safran Foer, just released his new book, “Eating Animals.” How great is it my favorite author would write about food – a topic I’m getting more passionate about. It’s the 3rd book I own by him and I’m starting to recognize a pattern in his book cover designs. They all have hand drawn type and they are all simply amazing. I researched the artist, John Gray. Here’s what Print Magazine had to say in their article Killing Your Darlings:
“East London–based designer Jon Gray of gray318 is best known for his covers—many hand-lettered—for some of fiction’s brightest lights. Gray receives commissions from both American and British publishers, and oversees the design of the U.K. editions of Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Coe, and Ali Smith. In the U.S., how ever, it’s his covers for Jonathan Safran Foer that have become iconic. After designing the jacket of Foer’s massively successful Everything is Illuminated, Gray was given the assignment to work on the novelist’s highly anticipated 2005 follow-up, a story about a boy grappling with the aftermath of September 11…the designer’s “hand” cover [Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close] became one of the most instantly recognizable book jackets of the year.”
So I tip my hat to you Mr. Gray. I love your work. And I highly recommend anyone to pick up one of Foer’s books. Especially, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” And here’s a podcast about Eating Animals if anyone is interested.




