![]() ![]() ![]() It’s learning how to switch off that critical voice long enough to give yourself the time to play, to experiment, that I think is the key to making good work.” Jon goes on to describe his envy of people who can naturally forgo their impulsive fault-finding and details a process that belies his true artistry: “Getting past that seems to get harder and harder the longer you do the job. But despite jumping from bestseller to bestseller, he tells us that he’s often still critical of his own work. ![]() Working out of a studio in Dalston that he shares with illustrators Tom Gauld and Dan Mumford, Jon has a busy schedule. “When I finished college they offered me a job and I’ve been designing book covers ever since.” Despite partially falling into his early days of design work, the route he’s take seems inevitable both of his parents were avid readers and his dad was an archivist, “so it’s no real surprise that I gravitated to all things paper,” he says. “I studied at LCC a very long time ago and I was fortunate enough to get an internship at Little, Brown Book Group during the summer of my second year,” he explains. It’s been a mixture of luck and skill (mostly the latter) that has got Jon to where he is now, designing book covers for some of the biggest authors and publishers around. From Sally Rooney’s critically acclaimed bestseller, Normal People, which adorned every bookshop window display late last year, to Zadie Smith’s Swing Time, which seemed to make at least one appearance on every tube journey to and from home. If you were pushed to pick a selection of the most notable book covers of recent years, there’s a very good chance some of Jon Gray’s designs would be in there. ![]()
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