Portfolio Center Blog Portfolio Center Blog: Graphic Design & Writing Industry Expert Zach Dodson
Zach Dodson is an active member of many different arts communities, forging connections between the worlds of design and literature. In 2004, he founded the bleachedwhale design studio. His Art Direction credits include shelter, No Touching and MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine. His design has appeared in Newcity, Punk Planet, Resonance, TimeOut Chicago, Mule, Young Chicago Authors and Bagazine.
In 2005, he founded featherproof books, an indie publisher based in Chicago, dedicated to the small-press ideals of finding fresh, urban voices. featherproof publishes downloadable mini-books, and perfect-bound, full-length works of fiction, including novels by Columbia graduates Brian Costello and Todd Dills. He also serves as managing editor for the Printers’ Ball, a yearly celebration of print in Chicago.
Zach’s hybrid typo/graphic novel, boring boring boring boring boring boring boring, is due from featherproof in Fall 2008. Excerpts have appeared, or are forthcoming, in such publications as The M Review, 55 Words, THE2NDHAND, Why Vandalism?, Weird Deer, and Take the Handle. The audio version will be co-released on Flameshovel Records. In 2007 he was named to Newcity’s Top 50 Literary Figures in Chicago.
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