Under-Cover Designer

publishing design un-covered.

[Sonia Poulton @SoniaPoulton]

If you're shocked that David Walliams has been revealed as a piece of filth who talks about people as if they are scum & beneath him, you simply have not been paying attention. These types are the staple of MSM. Absolute fortune spent on PR giving them the family friendly spin.

[Ross McCafferty @RossMcCaff]

If you've so much as bumped into anyone who works in publishing or entertainment, you'll struggle to find a single person with a nice thing to say about David Walliams.

And that's before all the stuff he's actually said and done *in public*

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

Until he stops making the big bosses their bonuses, a lot of "whispers" will continue to go unchecked. But I don't think there is a single person in the industry that hasn't heard the tales. #DavidWalliams

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

The whole of publishing at the news that @davidwalliams is a toss bucket. #DavidWalliams

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

#Careers that you love but because of that love, make you want to cry constantly.

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

I tweet so sporadically because I'm always too burnt out to think of anything useful to say and my wrist hurts too much to use my phone. #designerproblems #burnout

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

What's the best and worst part of my job? Collaboration. With the right team it's exhilarating and fun with brilliant outcomes. With the wrong team it's literally my version of hell. Maybe I'm just an arse though . .

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

I heard through the grapevine that there is an Art Director out there who opens people's WIP files and changes things without telling the designer. I just got chills man. Don't do that.

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

If I could have one thing, it would be a reset on the public opinion on pink. I bloody love pink and I'm tired of sales telling me I can't use it for everything all the time .

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

@dannyarteruk So much content to tweet, but let's all make someone feel shit for their efforts and ideas by encouraging Twitter pack mentality to rip their work apart 👍

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

Congrats to the @ABCoverD winners from last night. You are at least acknowledged by your peers if no one else in this wonderful industry 🙂

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

@thebookseller why do you report on every shortlist and award but not the design and production awards?! Are you not in partnership with it?

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

Overheard in a cover meeting. "I showed my sister the cover and she thought it needed to be more "Billie eilish" What can we do about that?" 😂 I mean, you tell me !
#bookdesign #bookcover #publishing

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

@Louiestowell This is run by a very talented designer and a well respected agent. I don't think it's any worse that orange beak... Just maybe you don't know them personally so you're more open to dragging them?

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

@samatlounge I prefer to be overly nice and condescending to those who wronged or underestimated me in the past.

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[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

Imagine having the audacity to tell someone bluntly that they have pissed you off while working in publishing 😂 We only accept bitter glances and sickly smiles over prosecco moments please.

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

Anyone else fed up with the politics of publishing? No? Just me then.

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

@EveAinsworth Pretty similar feeling. Sorry to hear it for you. Let's hope the weekend brings with it some niceness.

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

When no one likes it but everyone is waiting for someone else to say they don't like it. Yet once the first person cracks, no one holds back.

[Under-Cover Designer @DesignerUnder]

Cover meeting confessionals : zoom presentation, designer click share screen. Silence. . . 500 years later sales person - "Is the typography too... I don't know. Typographic? "
I call this the silence of doom.