Charles Orr

Art director, designer

Brooklyn, NY, USA

Work Experience

Freelance

Art director, designer, illustrator

From 1998 to 2014 I have designed book covers for a range of publishers both small and large including: Bloof Books, Soft Skull Press, Bitter Cherry, Alternative Comics, Toon Books, First Second, Jonathan Cape, Pantheon, and Random House.

While primarily focusing on book cover design I have also typeset interiors, produced ePub books, and in my capacity as art director for healthcare related marketing efforts, produced multi-faceted print and digital publications.

I have also directly collaborated with a range of contemporary writers, including National Book Award recipient Colum McCann and genre-spanning best-selling author Neil Gaiman, on my blog The Hypothetical Library. The premise of the site is to create a hypothetical book cover based solely on descriptive flap copy provided by the author for a book that does not and will never exist. The results of this project can be seen here http://hypolib.typepad.com
September 2001 - Present Brooklyn, New York, United States

Education

CCAD

Bachelor of fine arts

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Awards

Rx Award

Art Direction

2003

Skills

Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Art Direction, Epub , Illustration, Indesign, Marketing, Typesetting,