Zachary Petit

3 days ago | fastcompany.com | Zachary Petit

Barbie x Keiichi Tanaami. Hot Wheels x Daniel Arsham. Masters of the Universe x Virgil Abloh. Uno x Shantell Martin, Takashi Murakami, Gary Baseman, Kartell . . . These collaborations might sound like an Andy Warhol pop fever dream, but they’re very real within Mattel Creations, the toy powerhouse’s hub for innovation and premium collectibles, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary as it continues carving out all-new business for the company.

1 week ago | printmag.com | Zachary Petit

In 2012, Jenny Volvovski launched From Cover to Cover—a personal project in which she sought to design a cover for every single book she read. And, well, they were surprisingly brilliant, and have unsurprisingly led to a career designing real book covers (and much more). Her latest project: A cover for Juan José Saer’s novel The Event.

1 week ago | businessandamerica.com | Zachary Petit

When you describe it in words, the Indianapolis 500 might seem like a boring watch: Cars go round and round an oval track 200 times, totaling 500 miles over the course of a few hours. But if you were a driver, you’d be having a hell of a different experience. Think screaming speeds of 230 miles per hour, pulling 4 Gs on corners, with one’s reflexes and split-second decisions drawing a thin line between victory and tragedy . . . over the course of a few hours.

4 weeks 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.

1 month 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.