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Never Too Late
Peter Mendelsund is a senior designer
at Knopf, an art director for Vertical,
and an independent Japanese-Ameri-
can publisher. A philosophy major,
Mendelsund also holds various gradu-
ate degrees in music from several con-
servatories. Also, before becoming a
graphic designer he performed,
taught, and wrote classical music.
When his first child was born, he real-
ized he needed to improve his income
and, according to him, graphic design
was a natural choice.
His first job was designing CD covers
for a small record label with which he
had previously recorded. Aft ...