Author Archive
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Stranger Will, cover by committee
Much is said about the difference between art and product, between creative motivation and monetary motivation. I think that perhaps no medium bridges those two worlds better than the book cover, a visual meant to entice a person to experience the art within. But what is strange about any art ...
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Jake | BRUTON STROUBE
Bruton Stroube is a photography studio composed of three photographers, Greg Stroube, Brandon Voges, and Eric Johnson (come on, Eric; change your last name to something crazy already). Most of the photography available on the Bruton Stroube website has commercial lean to it, but one series stuck out. Something strange ...
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Eye | STEVE WILSON
Anyone else get Earthworm Jim flashbacks when looking at this?
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i am here And You Are Gone book cover
When planning a cover design, one approach is to extract an image from the story and build upon it to reflect the narrative’s overall tone. Here, I felt as though I had no other option than to take this approach.
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The Hunter | DAN MAY
Dan May’s work is soft. Truly, that’s the best word I can use to describe it. His fanciful depictions feel painted in thin layers to give the final image a glow, a technique called sfumato, which Leonard DaVinci often used. I don’t know that May actually uses this technique, but ...
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The artist’s vice | Ramrod cigar
What struck me was just how aesthetically conflicted this stick of a cigar seemed. It’s ugly. But still it’s a cigar (re: it has an inherent beauty). It’s like Demi Moore’s kid, Rumer. The second surprise: this thing smells bathed in bourbon. Drunk uncle style lacquered in vaporous, hot bourbon. But truly, Ramrod had me at “ugly.” I’m a sucker for the outsider.
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Two Birds | KRISTIN FOUQUET
The classy female profile directly opposite the disheveled raven imply more than it literally states
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cover of Perforated Heart | JASON HEUER
Perforated Heart, with it’s recessed perforations, is as close as a cover design can get before it transcends the 2D format. And when that happens, we get legitimate book art objects
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Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis | SCOTT ALLEN
the abstracted elements of Waits’s forehead, his lanky frame, his seemingly physical dependence on the microphone, and his wardrobe all lend glorious credibility to Allen’s rendition.
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Lungs for Readers | ARTJERK.NET
It is my hope that the fake Lungs for Readers program (and this site, obviously) helps to facilitate audience connection in a way that is both increasingly necessary, and always a fucking blast for all parties involved.
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Lady Bathory | JOSHUA HOFFINE
Much of what disturbs about these images is the very real, very tactile presentation.
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cover of Charactered Pieces: stories | CALEB J ROSS
To celebrate today’s release of my chapbook Charactered Pieces: stories from OW Press, I am going to get a bit ego-y and discuss my own work. Artjerk was set up to do just that, let us jerks discuss our own pieces (as well as the pieces of others, sure), but ...
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Once Prosperous | TRAVIS ECKERT
the simple composition allows the contrast of natural sky against the dilapidated building to state itself without forcing a message upon the viewer