Tom Duxbury

Recent blog posts about Tom Duxbury

Lincoln in the limelight

20 December 2017
Awards madness, Book design, Graphic design

Robert Hanks takes a final look at the cover designs for The Man Booker 2017 shortlist and the winner – George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo
Book design can be an unlovely process – a set of negotiations to find something…

And then there were six …

14 October 2017
Awards madness, Book design, Graphic design, Illustration, Photography, Typography, Visual culture

The winner of the Man Booker Prize 2017 will be announced on 17 October. Robert Hanks talks to the designers whose covers wrap round the six shortlisted contenders
In ‘The look of literature’ I wrote about the thirteen covers on this year’s Man…

The look of literature

31 August 2017
Book design, Graphic design, Illustration, Photography, Typography, Visual culture

The Man Booker longlist provides a snapshot of graphic design for literary fiction. By Robert Hanks
The variety of the novels on this year’s Man Booker longlist is reflected in the…