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laura shaw desIgnexhibition catalogs /// magazines /// books

Tin House Books /// book design, slipcover, layout and typesettingIndependent Publishers Book Award /// Most Outstanding Design

Tin House Books /// book cover and page design, layout and typesetting

University of Minnesota Press /// book cover and page design, layout and typesetting

Patricia Houghton Clarke Photography /// exhibition catalog, design and production

Patricia Houghton Clarke Photography /// book design

Tin House Magazine, covers /// art direction, design, layout and typesetting

Tin House Magazine, interior spreads /// art direction, design, layout and typesetting

Timber Press /// book design, layout and typesetting

Timber Press /// book design, layout and typesetting

University of Minnesota Press /// book design, layout and typesetting

Book covers and jackets

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Kate Marshall

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Call me a hopeless optimist, a lover of analogue, a luddite if you must. But when I want to learn something new, commune with an artist’s body of work, lose myself in a poem, or devise a permaculture garden—I reach for a book.

I’m not alone in this passion for the printed page. If you’re in the business of building books, or making exhibition catalogs of groundbreaking shows, I suspect we share this love of the permanent record.

I believe the experience of the printed work, the flipping through and returning to, is so often more potent than the click and the download. That’s why I’ve sent you this little bit of ink on paper. A small analog gift in a very virtual world.

Talk to me about your upcoming project.

Real ink on real paper. Something to celebrate still.

—Laura

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Interweave Press

Music Academy of the West

National Geographic

Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance

Oregon Historical Society Press

Oxford University Press

Patricia Houghton Clarke Photography

Portland Baroque Orchestra

Random House

Simon & Schuster

Shambhala Publications

Soho Press

Timber Press

Tin House Magazine and Books

Tuttle Publishers

UNICEF

University of Minnesota Press

W. W. Norton

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Front cover: Detail from “Sloane Ranger” © 2012, Patricia Houghton Clarke. Page 2 and back cover: Detail from Sharp Eyes, 1891 by William Hamilton Gibson.

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