Bookish ish. Design & Production Manager at @UPittPress/@PittPoetry. Tweets my own, &c.
Joined June 2009
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Joel W. Coggins retweeted
I wrote for @NewYorker about Lorraine Louie, an underappreciated graphic design pioneer who designed the iconic Vintage Contemporaries covers that I love so much. Thanks to Paula Scher, Peter Mendelsund, and Louie's family for talking to me newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
Joel W. Coggins retweeted
Will never tire of these covers by Mario Degrada, 1960s.
Many more here aiap.it/2000-2020/cdpg/index…
My daughter said & signed “I love you” to me for the first time today. It is one of the best feelings I’ve ever had. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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Joel W. Coggins retweeted
A few nights ago, hidden under a cabinet, I found a pile of old letters from an editor in the ‘40s asking white writers to pen something on the “negro problem”
One writer responded: “I’m kinda busy but you should probably ask a few Black writers”
Some dude named Sinclair Lewis
Joel W. Coggins retweeted
Why do some authors’ books get a branded look?—by @APockros > aigaeod.co/BrandedLook
Joel W. Coggins retweeted
Thanks for showing some love to my #coverdesign! 💕
This self-employed freelancer appreciates it. 🥰🙏
AD: Joel W. Coggins @syn_tax / @UPittPress
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Joel W. Coggins retweeted
Absolutely SWOONING over The Essential Etheridge Knight repackage by my talented colleague @syn_tax. This collection is a treasure and should be on every poetry lovers bookshelf. Order the repackage from our website. Or even better, your favorite indie bookstore !!!
Joel W. Coggins retweeted
"I was aiming for an image that had a sense of creeping dread—something that hinted at an invisible force that might be humanly impossible to resist." @sunrararara on finding inspiration in pulp to create a new cover design for "The Plague." lithub.com/how-to-reframe-th…
Joel W. Coggins retweeted
NOW YOU KNOW IT ALL: stories by Joanna Pearson / University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress
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Design: #HenrySeneYee;
AD: Joel W. Coggins @syn_tax
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❌ #outtakes #killedconcept #killedCovers #illustration by instagram.com/henryseneyee_d…
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#NowYouKnowItAll #JoannaPearson #bookcover
Joel W. Coggins retweeted
Peter Kraus of @ursusbooks offers a fascinating look at Futurist masterpieces, photo-books, and other graphically innovative publications produced in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century.designersandbooks.com/blog/i…
ALT Interior pages from F. T. Marinetti’s “Metal Book,” Parole in Libertà Futuriste Olfattive Tattili Termiche (Words in Futurist, olfactory, tactile, thermal freedom), 1932, courtesy @ursusbooks
Joel W. Coggins retweeted
Interested in working for the University Press of Kentucky? We're hiring a Production Director to oversee the design, composition, creative vision, and production of all books from visual concept to print and electronic publication. Apply now at buff.ly/3p4DqYp!
Joel W. Coggins retweeted
Bon Iver and poet Ross Gay have collaborated on a new piece to help launch Jagjaguwar's 25th-anniversary campaign. rol.st/3rCLDTs
Big morning in #Littsburgh: @PENamerica award finalists announced from @UPittPress/@PittPoetry, @AutumnHousePrs, and @EulaliaBooks!
Ross Gay's Be Holding (@UPittPress / @PittPoetry) is a finalist for the @PENamerica Jean Stein Book Award
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. . . and just to round things out: legendary Pittsburgh poet Gerald Stern's most recent selected & new poems, Blessed as We Were (@wwnorton) is a finalist for the @PENamerica Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection (I hope I'm not overlooking any other Pittsburgh connections!)
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The one time I met Jean Valentine was when she attended a @PittPoetry reading at Book Culture on Columbus in NYC several years ago. Lynn Emanuel introduced me to her & Jean instantly rattled off 4 poetry covers she knew I’d designed. She was so gracious & complimentary. 2/3
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