Zachary Petit

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Freelance journalist/copywriter. Writes about design/arts/culture/travel. Words @fastcompany @SmithsonianMag @printmag @AIGAeyeondesign @writersdigest @natgeo

Articles

The Bible, redesigned for the Instagram age

1 week ago | fastcompany.com | Zachary Petit

Bible designs tend to be variations on a theme-tissue-thin paper and unforgiving font sizes, owing to the 783,000 words crammed into a single normal-sized book (the average novel, by comparison, clocks in at 70,000-100,000 words). Cheap faux-leather covers. A bookmark ribbon, maybe. If you're a person of faith, it's perhaps not the most fitting frame for what is defined as the literal word of God. If you're a design zealot, it's heretical object quality. If you're both, well-prayers.
30 of the Best Book Covers for April 2025 – PRINT Magazine

2 weeks ago | printmag.com | Zachary Petit

If you’ve been reading this column for any length of time, you’ve no doubt seen Luísa Dias’ book covers. From her home base of Lisbon, she has been putting a fresh spin on genre work and weird fiction at large—so this month we checked in with her about her jackets for the independent house Wild Hunt Books, in particular her designs for the publisher’s pocket-sized Northern Weird Series. The rest of our favorite covers of April—including some we missed last month (ope!)—follow.
¿Y si tus películas favoritas se convirtieran en libros vintage?

2 weeks ago | fastcompany.mx | Zachary Petit

De niño, Matt Stevens y su vecino solían prepararse para un partido de fútbol americano. Stevens siempre era de los Cowboys. Su vecino, de los Steelers. El único problema era que casi nunca terminaban el partido. “Nos quedábamos sin tiempo porque pasaba mucho tiempo haciendo el cartel del partido”, dice Stevens.
Your favorite movies, reimagined as old book covers

2 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Zachary Petit

As a kid, Matt Stevens and his neighbor used to hunker down and get set up for a game of flick football. Stevens was always the Cowboys. His neighbor was always the Steelers. Only problem was, they barely ever got to finish the game itself. “We would oftentimes run out of time, because I would spend so long making the poster for the game,” Stevens says.
Tennessee just made an invisible update to its tourism site-and it's brilliant

3 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Zachary Petit

If you've ever been to a Nashville honky-tonk, you've witnessed the chorus of cowboy boots, the thrumming acoustic guitars, the roadhouse neon, the Stetsons, the buoyant bourbon-and-barbecue-fueled energy.
Tennessee just made an invisible update to its tourism site—and it’s brilliant | Flipboard

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Zachary Petit

16 hours agoTikTok Tourism Is Ruining AntarcticaAntarctica was once considered a pristine land that would forever go unsullied by humanity’s worst instincts to pollute and degrade every area on earth. Things have changed. Antarctica is now getting hit from all sides—from climate change melting ice sheets, to garbage floating in from long …1 hour agoTourism is the next casualty in Trump's trade war. Our economy might not recover.
diseñadores olvidados

4 weeks ago | fastcompany.mx | Zachary Petit

El fenómeno del diseño de posguerra, conocido como modernismo de mediados de siglo, ha regresado y prosperado desde hace años. Además del flujo constante de nuevos productos de las grandes cadenas minoristas que se benefician de las líneas limpias del pasado, la gente sigue comprando en masa originales, reediciones e imitaciones de diseñadores icónicos como el sillón Eames.
6 forgotten heroes of mid-century Modern design you need to know

1 month ago | fastcompany.com | Zachary Petit

The Postwar design phenomenon known as mid-century modernism has been back—and thriving—for years now. In addition to a steady stream of new products from major retailers that cash in on the clean curves of the past, people continue to buy originals, reissues, and knockoffs of icons like the Eames Lounge Chair in droves. But if there’s one person I’d wager loves it just a bit more than the rest of us, it’s journalist Dominic Bradbury.
Celebrate 'The Great Gatsby' turning 100 with this $500 ultimate edition

1 month ago | fastcompany.com | Zachary Petit

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby conjures up images of gilded Art Deco opulence: cloche hats and shimmering flapper dresses; a freeflow of French 75s and festivities. And that’s thanks, in part, to kaleidoscopic films like Baz Lurhmann’s 2013 adaptation of the novel.
Meet the designer behind the look of the 21st-century book

1 month ago | fastcompany.com | Zachary Petit

There’s one big thing about Rodrigo Corral that does not initially make sense: The book cover maestro does not have a signature style. Consider his chameleonic cover hits. The Fault in Our Stars. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Survivor, Lullaby and the rest of Chuck Palahniuk’s catalog. Rachel Cusk’s books. James Frey’s controversial A Million Little Pieces, the cover that helped launch Corral into ubiquity. Recent collaborative output like Intermezzo and Mojave Ghost.