is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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Once upon forever ago, I responded to graphic design job opportunity from a major independent comic book publisher. I was comic book addict growing up, and while that addiction was responsible for my pursuit of a career at the intersection of art and computers, I knew I wouldn’t be doing pencils or ink.
So what did the graphic design job entail? With your average book, the design of new mastheads, inside front cover, artist column and letters. And of course publication design related to graphic novels and glossy hard cover books.
As a fan I had always assumed that the big name artist doing pencils created the masthead. But as i discovered, there is much more of a team to this art.