Cover and interior design for Jeff Friedman's book of poems, Pretenders (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014).
In order to counteract the amount of noise in the original photo the author requested, I took a photo of the picture on my screen, giving it a faded, vintage feel. After being printed on matte cover stock, the cover carries an almost ghostly atmosphere.
The book interior was also designed by me. This was my first experience with book-length text layout. I went with a fairly simple design, to complement the pure and straightforward quality of Friedman's poems.
