Quick! Run for Cover!
When I first started doing book covers, I wondered aloud to H.E. why anyone would use stock photos. “I,” said yours truly, scoffing, “would create everything from scratch.” I’d be flipping through stock photo catalogs while saying this, of course, because that’s what would trigger it. I’d look through those catalogs—sent to me at work because, hey, I’m a graphic designer—and I’d feel so ultimately superior to anyone who actually bought from those catalogs. H.E. knowingly bit his tongue. He…