Alex Merto on his less is more approach to book cover design
Having designed book covers for around ten years, Merto says his process is driven fully by the book rather than his own personal style 11/03/2021 8:32 am
New York-based designer Alex Merto says he got into graphic design by accident. Deeming himself a failed student in high school without a “clear path to anywhere”, he spent a lot of time making music in various bands and designing album art along the way. He eventually moved from California to New York to study at the School of Visual Arts.
“I think the first piece of graphic design that I really noticed and impacted me was a book designed by Peter Buchanan-Smith for the band Wilco,” Merto tells CR. “It was the first time I noticed that a book could really be art. I was lucky enough to end up studying with Peter while I was in school, as well as Paul Sahre who has also always been a huge inspiration to me.”
Beyond Britney Spears: the troubled female stars who also deserve an apology
Hollywood is scrambling to make amends to Britney Spears. But what about Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, or Drew Barrymore?
16 February 2021 • 5:00pm
Oops! We did it again: Mischa Barton, Lindsay Lohan, Tara Reid, and Drew Barrymore all deserve our remorse, just like Britney
“Don’t you know that you’re toxic?” wonders Britney Spears in her most famous song, and in the case of Justin Timberlake, her ex-boyfriend and former public slut-shamer-in-chief, the answer appears, finally, to be yes.
The US release of Framing Britney Spears, a New York Times documentary exploring the pop star’s rise, fall, and bizarre current existence in a state of legal limbo – since 2008, she has been under the conservatorship of her father – has provoked a backlash against Timberlake, and other infamous Britney detractors, for profiting from the degrading and sexist public discourse surrounding a vulnerable you
American model Ratajkowski demanded that writer Rich Cohen explain himself over the 2009 article in which he wrote that Simpson s weight was all I could think of .
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Southport, CT - Join Pequot Library as they welcome Rich Cohen to discuss his upcoming release, PEE WEES: Confessions of a Hockey Parent.
In Pee Wees , Cohen discusses a season of hard-fought competition in Fairfield County. Part memoir and part exploration of youth sports and the exploding popularity of American hockey, Pee Wees follows the ups and downs of the Ridgefield Bears, the twelve-year-old boys and girls on the team, and the parents watching, cheering, conniving, and cursing in the stands. It is a book about the love of the game, the love of parents for their children, and the triumphs and struggles of both.