As you’d expect, I’ve got a search column on TweetDeck for “pieratt”. One of the few advantages of having a weird surname is that most related queries are relevant to my interests in one way or another. For instance, I’ve got no relation to this store, but I plan to buy a staff shirt from them some day.
My dad’s name come up today in Twitter for the first time that I’m aware of. It was from a site which made mention of one of a handful of theological books he wrote while stationed in Sao Paulo as a missionary.
Points of interest:
1) It’s a torrent site offering it up for illegal download
2) It’s a Christian torrent site
3) I’m pretty sure my mom designed the cover for the book while on staff at the publishing house that my dad operated.
When I consider my motives for going into design or my interest in book covers, my parents don’t come up as an immediate consideration. But that can’t be right. My dad ran a publishing house for 8 years and my mom was the staff designer. I don’t remember being exposed to the company or the design work in any real sense, but the alternative would defy common sense.
classic.
Your touch is clearly your mother’s finesse with covers, not your dad’s with words.
Scott, are you saying I can’t write?! gufaw.
That is a seriously charming, eccentric design.