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Peter Mendelsund

Graphic designer

Peter Mendelsund appears in the following:

Reading

How Words on a Page Become Images in Our Minds

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Peter Mendelsund, Knopf's associate art director, explores how we visualize images from reading works of literature and talks about designing book covers.

Left to right: drafts of Peter Mendelsund's design for 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' and the final cover

Judging a Designer by His Covers

Friday, August 15, 2014

When Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo came out, it didn’t look like any other book of its kind. That’s thanks to Peter Mendelsund, whose uncluttered book jacket designs...