The Best of Cover Design

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Clients are for chumps and people

worried about prot margins. We don’t

have any clients, but we collaborate with

a lot of talented people.

Altitude Associates in San Francisco, CA, was

founded by Brian Singer in 2004. Altitude is a

creative agency that helps consumer brands

engage people through inspiration, working

on programs with companies such as Apple,

Adidas, Stanford Lively Arts, and Chronicle

Books, among others. Singer’s work has

garnered recognition from

Communica-

tion Arts

,

AIGA 365

,

Print

,

How

,

Graphis

,

Step

, and

AR100

, and he has work in the

permanent collection of the San Francisco

Museum of Modern Art.

Singer is also the creator of

The 1000 Jour-

nals Project

, a global art experiment where

journals are passed from hand to hand. The

journals have traveled to 40 countries, and

through every U.S. state. They have come to

rest in hostels, cafes, and law offices; been

the subject of treasure hunts; brought to re-

mote mountaintops; abandoned at airports;

and stolen at gunpoint.

The project has been covered in the

New York

Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street

Journal, Entertainment Weekly,

and

Better

Homes & Gardens

. It is the subject of a book,

a feature length documentary by Andrea

Kreuzhage, and has been exhibited at the

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the

Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, and

the Musuem in Gliwice, Poland.

Singer is the former President of the San

Francisco chapter of AIGA, the professional

association for design, and has taught in

both the CCA Extension and Academy of Art

University programs. He also serves on the

Advisory Board for the San Francisco Arts

Commission Gallery.

PHOTO: JAY GANADEN

About Altitude

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© 2011 by Rockport Publishers, Inc.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written

permission of the copyright owners. All images in this book have been reproduced

with the knowledge and prior consent of the artists concerned, and no responsibil-

ity is accepted by producer, publisher, or printer for any infringement of copyright or

otherwise, arising from the contents of this publication. Every effort has been made to

ensure that credits accurately comply with information supplied. We apologize for any

inaccuracies that may have occurred and will resolve inaccurate or missing informa-

tion in a subsequent reprinting of the book.

First published in the United States of America by

Rockport Publishers, a member of

Quayside Publishing Group

100 Cummings Center

Suite 406-L

Beverly, Massachusetts 01915-6101

Telephone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

www.rockpub.com

Library of Control Number: 2010940534

ISBN-13: 978-1-59253-689-4

ISBN-10: 1-59253-689-1

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Design: Altitude Associates

www.altitudesf.com

Printed in China

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Digital edition: 978-1-61060-228-0

Softcover edition: 978-1-59253-689-4