Rodrigo Corral

Last updated
Rodrigo Corral
Education School of Visual Arts
MovementGraphic Design
Website rodrigocorral.com

Rodrigo Corral is a graphic designer and conceptual artist based in New York City. In 2002, Corral founded Rodrigo Corral Design studio to create iconic book jacket art for the publishing industry. Corral has created designs and conceptual art for Jay-Z, Ray Dalio, John Green, Chuck Palahniuk, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Libeskind, Gary Shteyngart, Junot Diaz, Gucci Mane, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Jared Leto, Jeff VanderMeer, Edward Snowden, Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow and for organizations such as The Criterion Collection, New York magazine, and The New York Times .

Contents

Early life and education

Rodrigo Corral was born in Long Island, New York. His parents immigrated from Colombia shortly before he was born. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Career

Rodrigo Corral has taught design at the School of Visual Arts and Cooper Union. He was included in the 2018 New York Times list of best book covers, [1] and published his own New York Times bestselling book, Sneakers, in 2018.

He is currently the creative director at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2] [3] Creative Director at Large at New Directions Publishing, and runs his own studio, Rodrigo Corral Design. [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Muldoon</span> Irish poet

Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Henri Cole</span> American poet

Henri Cole is an American poet, who has published many collections of poetry and a memoir. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Arabic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Farrar, Straus and Giroux</span> American book publishing company

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and Nobel Prizes. As of 2016 the publisher is a division of Macmillan, whose parent company is the German publishing conglomerate Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Donald Barthelme</span> American writer, editor, and professor

Donald Barthelme Jr. was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, was managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of Fiction, and a professor at various universities. He also was one of the original founders of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexander Stille</span> American author and journalist

Alexander Stille is an American author and journalist.

Lawrence Joseph is an American poet, writer, essayist, critic, lawyer, and professor of law.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">C. K. Williams</span> American poet, critic and translator (1936–2015)

Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won many poetry awards. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the 2003 National Book Award and Williams received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2005. The 2012 film The Color of Time relates aspects of Williams' life using his poetry.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Berryman</span> American poet and scholar (1914–1972)

John Allyn McAlpin Berryman was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry. His best-known work is The Dream Songs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hope Larson</span> American cartoonist

Hope Raue Larson is an American illustrator and cartoonist. Her main field is comic books.

Gjertrud Schnackenberg is an American poet.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack Gantos</span> American author of childrens books

Jack Gantos is an American author of children's books. He is best known for the fictional characters Rotten Ralph and Joey Pigza. Rotten Ralph is a cat who stars in twenty picture books written by Gantos and illustrated by Nicole Rubel from 1976 to 2014. Joey Pigza is a boy with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), featured in five novels from 1998 to 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carl Phillips</span> American writer and poet (born 1959)

Carl Phillips is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2023, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Giroux</span> American book editor and publisher

Robert Giroux was an American book editor and publisher. Starting his editing career with Harcourt, Brace & Co., he was hired away to work for Roger W. Straus, Jr. at Farrar & Straus in 1955, where he became a partner and, eventually, its chairman. The firm was henceforth known as Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where he was known by his nickname, "Bob".

Simon Henwood is a British artist, author, film director, and music video director. Henwood first gained attention as a children's writer and later on for his paintings inspired by adolescence, as well as combining "darkness and hip together". He is best known for directing Kanye West's "Love Lockdown" and being the creative force behind Rihanna's Rated R album campaign. Henwood was in a relationship with Irish singer-songwriter Róisín Murphy.

John Gall, is an American graphic designer known primarily for the design of book covers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rowan Ricardo Phillips</span> American poet (born 1974)

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is an American poet, writer, editor, and translator. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University, the poetry editor of The New Republic, and the editor of Princeton University Press' Princeton Series of Contemporary Poetry. He is President of the Board of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catherine Lacey (author)</span> American writer

Catherine Lacey is an American writer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tod Lippy</span> American artist

Tod Lippy is an American artist, designer, writer, editor and musician. Lippy received an M.A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art in 1988, and an M.A. in cinema studies from New York University in 1990. He joined the editorial staff at Print magazine in 1991, eventually becoming the magazine's senior editor. Lippy co-founded and edited Scenario: The Magazine of Screenwriting Art (1994–97) and the arts zine publicsfear (1992–93). His 2000 book, Projections 11: New York Film-Makers on Film-Making, was published by Faber & Faber. In 2003, he established the Esopus Foundation Ltd., a 501(c)(3) arts organization.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dominic Smith (author)</span> American novelist

Dominic Smith is an Australian-American novelist.

Noa Denmon is an American illustrator. She received a Caldecott Honor in 2021 for illustrating the picture book A Place Inside of Me, written by Zetta Elliott.

References

  1. Dorfman, Matt (21 December 2018). "The 12 Best Book Covers of 2018". The New York Times via NYTimes.com.
  2. Charles, Ron. "Who is that woman on Jonathan Franzen's 'Purity'?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  3. Murg, Stephanie (22 March 2011). "Rodrigo Corral Appointed Creative Director of Farrar, Straus and Giroux". Adweek . Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  4. Racic, Monica (6 October 2010). "Under Cover: Rodrigo Corral and "Super Sad True Love Story"". The New Yorker .