Reaction to Peter Mendelsund’s NPR podcast interview

Peter Mendelsund talks about his creative process and what gives him inspiration for creating book jackets. By reading and annotating the text Peter tries to figure out the mood or the affect the book has on the reader, he tries to figure out a symbol that represents the text. Most of design is trial and error, and he designs the cover in an effort to capture how he was feeling when he was reading it and I think that’s what makes his designs so successful