Tal Designz

Kicking Ass and Saving Souls

2011-11-10T10:20:00.000-08:00

Penguin Press, July 2011

The Kid

2011-11-10T10:18:00.000-08:00

Penguin Press, July 2011. Designed with Darren Haggar.

The Silent Oligarch

2011-11-10T10:17:00.000-08:00

Penguin Press, January 2012

Our Time

2011-11-10T09:55:00.000-08:00

Penguin Press, October 2011

Childish Loves

2011-11-10T09:52:00.000-08:00

W.W. Norton, August 2011

Moonwalking with Einstein

2011-03-14T16:03:00.001-07:00

Penguin Press, March, 2011.

A Discovery of Witches

2011-03-14T16:02:00.000-07:00

Viking, February, 2011.

Funeral for a Dog

2011-03-14T15:57:00.000-07:00

WW Norton, March 2011.

My Name Is Memory

2011-03-14T15:51:00.000-07:00

Riverhead, Summer 2011.

A First-Rate Madness

2011-03-14T15:49:00.000-07:00

Penguin, Summer 2012.

A Counterfeiter's Paradise

2011-03-14T15:47:00.000-07:00

Penguin, Summer 2011.

Shock Value

2011-03-14T15:45:00.000-07:00

Penguin, Summer 2012

The House of Wisdom

2011-03-14T15:44:00.000-07:00

Penguin Press, March 2011

American Dreams

2011-03-14T15:42:00.000-07:00

Penguin, May 2011.

The Most Human Human

2011-03-14T15:39:00.000-07:00

Doubleday, March 2011

The Secret History of MI6

2010-09-21T07:51:00.000-07:00

Penguin Press, September 2010. The verso copy promises to reveal (among other things) "...THE REAL TOOLS OF SPYING: surprising insights on the technology of espionage from its early days: wireless communication, imaginative concealing devices (including a false horse penis), exploding file cabinets, and more."

More Money Than God

2010-06-11T10:06:00.000-07:00

Penguin Press, 2010. Designed with Darren Haggar. Printed on uncoated stock with textured spot gloss in the title.

The Manual of Detection

2010-03-08T21:23:00.000-08:00

Penguin, 2010. A surreal fantasy in which a reluctant detective must enter the dreams of a murdered man and face a criminal mastermind bent on total control of a slumbering city.

The Next Hundred Million

2010-03-08T21:20:00.000-08:00

Penguin Press, 2010. What America will be like with 400,000,000 people.

Repeat Until Rich

2010-03-08T21:16:00.000-08:00

Penguin Press, 2010. Josh Axelrad gives up a job on Wall Street to join a motley crew of card counters who live for the rush of winning big while narrowly escaping from trouble. Photo by me, hand by professional hand model Christopher Brand.

Command and Control

2010-03-08T21:13:00.000-08:00

Penguin Press, 2010. Photo of button commissioned from Matt Conte. The new book from the author of Fast Food Nation investigates nuclear proliferation.

Marks of Cain

2010-03-08T21:06:00.000-08:00

Viking, 2010. The second adventure novel by Tom Knox after The Genesis Secret. An American lawyer must race across Europe when he becomes a target in a series of gruesome murders rooted in ancient racial theories.

Jaya Miceli: Angelology

2010-03-08T20:49:00.000-08:00

Designed by Jaya Miceli, Viking, 2010. I was lucky to play a role in this project creating the wings and retouching the photo which wraps around the book. The cover is printed on pearlescent paper. This is an epic adventure story about the age-old battle between the half-human, half-angel Nephilim and the Society of Angelologists, who are bent on protecting humanity from their evil plans.

The Sugar King of Havana

2010-03-08T20:37:00.000-08:00

Penguin Press, 2010. The story of Julio Lobo, the richest man in Cuba, a philanthropist who also lived it up in extravagant style.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

2010-03-08T20:29:00.000-08:00

Penguin, 2010. Designed with Darren Haggar. Map of US by Doyle Partners. A 12-year old genius cartographer travels cross-country from his home in Montana to accept an award at the Smisthonian.

Days of Grace

2010-03-08T20:22:00.001-08:00

Viking, 2010. A teenage girl is sent to the English countryside to escape the blitz, falls in love with her surrogate sister, and discovers that the perfect family that took her in is harboring terrifying secrets. Printed on uncoated paper.

The Watchers

2010-03-08T19:43:00.000-08:00

Penguin Press, 2010. In response to terrorist threats against the US, the National Security Agency develops Total Information Awareness, a project that uses advanced techniques to collect mountains of data on all of us.

The Increment

2010-03-08T19:41:00.000-08:00

WW Norton, 2010. A CIA officer secretly hires a team of elite British agents to extricate an Iranian nuclear scientist from Teheran.

Long Time Coming

2010-03-08T19:31:00.000-08:00

Bantam, 2010. In this thriller, the nephew of British con man tracks down a Picasso collection stolen by his uncle from a Jewish diamond merchant in WWII. Photo by me of some cool frames I found in Chelsea.

Moonwalking with Einstein

2010-03-08T19:27:00.000-08:00

Penguin Press. Rejected comp. Joshua Foer's investigation of the US Memory Championship leads him to see if he can learn the pros' memory tricks in just one year. He ends up winning the Championship, which includes challenges like memorizing the order of a shuffled deck of cards in about a minute.

Denialism

2010-03-08T19:22:00.000-08:00

Penguin, 2010. The author argues that non-scientific hype about organic foods, natural remedies, and the dangers of vaccines amounts to magical thinking.

Provenance

2010-03-08T19:13:00.000-08:00

Penguin, 2010. The true story of con man John Drewe, who convinced down-on-his-luck painter John Myatt to paint about 240 fakes in the styles of artists such as Giacometti and Ben Nicholson. Myatt falsified documents in the Tate Gallery's archive to pass the works off as genuine. The painting on the cover is a Jasper Johns fake by Myatt.

Lake Overturn

2010-03-08T19:04:00.000-08:00

Harper Perennial, 2010. This is the best book I've read in a long time. In the 1980s, the residents of a small town in Idaho are faced with huge changes as longstanding secrets bubble up to the surface. Photo commisioned from Christopher Jones.

The Canal Builders

2010-03-08T19:01:00.000-08:00

Penguin, 2010. The building of the Panama Canal from a social perspective.

Passing Strange

2010-03-08T18:55:00.000-08:00

Penguin, 2010. Art commissioned by Darren Haggar from Marc Yancus. The true story of a 19th century man who led a double life - both as a famous white geologist and a black Pullman porter with a black wife and mixed-race children residing in Brooklyn.

The Poisoner's Handbook

2010-03-08T18:52:00.000-08:00

Penguin Press, 2010, Rejected Comp. This is a really great read about poison detectives in 1920s New York City.

Water Ghosts

2010-03-08T18:50:00.000-08:00

Penguin, 2010. Three bedraggled women appear out of the mist in a Chinese town in 1920s California. Thanks to Putnam designers Andrea Ho, Hyunhee Kang, and Nellys Liang, for putting up with a long modeling session.

Farm City

2010-03-08T18:47:00.000-08:00

Novella Carpenter and her boyfriend decide to start a farm in the middle of a tough city block in Oakland, CA, and end up having much more to handle than they ever imagined.

For You Mom, Finaly

2010-03-08T18:43:00.000-08:00

Penguin, 2010. Food critic Ruth Reichl's love letter to her mother, who taught her daughter to defy convention and be whoever she wanted to be.

The Shadow of the Wind

2009-06-12T12:20:00.000-07:00

Penguin, 2009. Christopher Brand runs into a giant book while visiting Barcelona in this classic adventure yarn.

Remix

2009-06-12T12:16:00.000-07:00

Penguin, 2009. This book tells you why the government shouldn't arrest little kids for posting YouTube videos of themselves lip-syncing to Michael Jackson.

The Partnership

2009-06-12T12:14:00.000-07:00

Penguin, 2009. If you've got a problem, we've got the answer. Call...The Partnership.

Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Vice

2009-06-12T12:07:00.000-07:00

Penguin Press, 2009. Designed with Darren Haggar. Strap on your seatbelts, punks, cuz Pynchon is hitting the beach for some California noir in August. Type is embossed and printed in neon ink. Art by Cruiserart.

The Genesis Secret

2009-06-12T12:05:00.000-07:00

Viking, 2009. It's the biggest secret to hit the planet since The Da Vinci Code! Type is chisel desbossed, snake is chisel embossed.

Defenders of the Faith

2009-06-12T12:04:00.000-07:00

Penguin Press, 2009. Title printed in gold foil. It's the end of the Rennaissance, suckas, as these badasses go head to head for European domination!

The Unpossessed City

2009-06-12T12:01:00.000-07:00

Penguin, 2009. Image inspired by Elsa Chiao's awesome hardcover design. An American slacker gets involved with the wrong girl in Moscow in this great thriller.

The China Lover

2009-06-12T11:59:00.000-07:00

Penguin, 2009. Thanks, Gabriele Wilson, for a great hardcover design and for supplying the art.

The Millionaires

2008-08-12T16:03:00.000-07:00

WW Norton, 2009. With Evan Gaffney Design.

Terminal

2008-08-12T16:02:00.001-07:00

Vintage Crime, 2008, Trade Paperback. With Evan Gaffney Design.

The Cosgrove Report

2008-08-12T15:57:00.000-07:00

Grove Atlantic 2009. Approved comp is on bottom.

How to Break Bad News

2008-04-05T18:40:00.001-07:00

Virgin Books, 2008. Photos and model courtesy of me.

Asshole!

2008-04-05T18:33:00.001-07:00

With Evan Gaffney Design. Broadway Books, 2008

Exposed

2008-04-05T18:28:00.000-07:00

With Evan Gaffney Design, Chelsea Green, 2007

Everyone Knows Everything

2008-04-05T18:25:00.000-07:00

With Evan Gaffney Design, Broadway Books, 2008

The Exchange Artist

2008-04-05T18:21:00.000-07:00

Hardcover and PB - with Evan Gaffney Design, Viking, 2007

Firebrands of Liberty

2008-04-05T18:12:00.001-07:00

With Evan Gaffney Design , Norton, 2008

Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed

2008-04-05T18:01:00.000-07:00

Virgin Books, 2008

The Shiksa Syndrome

2008-04-05T17:55:00.000-07:00

With Evan Gaffney Design. Broadway Books, 2008
Thank you, the lovely Alison Forner, for modelling.

The Black Hand

2008-04-05T17:49:00.001-07:00

With Evan Gaffney Design, Touchstone Books, 2008

T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.

2008-04-05T17:43:00.001-07:00

Grove Atlantic, 2008

The Legacy of...

2008-04-05T17:32:00.001-07:00

Oxford University Press, 2008

Recipe for Disaster

2008-04-05T17:20:00.000-07:00

Virgin Books/Cheek, 2008

Then We Came to the End

2008-04-05T17:11:00.001-07:00

With Evan Gaffney Design. Little, Brown, 2007