Alejandro Largo

Alejandro Largo – Designer

I am a strategically-driven designer with over 8 years of experience designing book covers and interiors.

Overview

I am a strategically-driven designer with over 8 years of experience designing book covers and interiors.


For over 2 years, I designed book covers and interiors for Columbia University Press that focused on subjects, such as History, Literature, Philosophy, Sociology, Politics and Economics.

Since then I have freelanced with Columbia University Press, Random House and book designer Rodrigo Corral.
Services
Non-Fiction
Architecture Art Business & Management Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits Design DIY & Crafts Economics Education & Reference Engineering Health & Wellbeing Humanities & Social Sciences Law Nature Parenting & Families Photography Political Science & Current Affairs Religion & Spirituality Sports & Outdoors Technology Travel
Fiction
Fantasy Humor & Comedy Literary Fiction Science Fiction Thriller & Suspense Young Adult
Languages
English
Awards
  • 2014 AIGA Fresh Blood
  • 2010 New York Book Show

Work experience

Paddle8

Dec, 2014 — Mar, 2016 (about 1 year)

As design director, I lead a team in charge of making sure we provide a consistent and engaging experience throughout all of Paddle8’s touch points.

Independent

Aug, 2014 — Present

Previously I’ve worked with Interbrand, SYPartners, The Museum of Modern Art, Bronx River Alliance, 2U, Hot Bread Kitchen, MCE Social Capital, among others.

Paddle8

Jan, 2013 — Dec, 2014 (almost 2 years)

Paddle8 is an online marketplace for collectors, presenting auctions of art and design. As the lead designer I lead the redesign of Paddle8’s visual identity, website and print collateral.

Apartment One

May, 2010 — Sep, 2012 (over 2 years)

I worked closely with the art and creative directors in the research, conception, execution and implementation of print and interactive projects for many different brands in the corporate, cultural and non-profit sectors.

Columbia University Press

Feb, 2008 — May, 2010 (over 2 years)

I designed book covers, mechanicals and paperback reprints for the press. I also designed and typeset book interiors.

Portfolio

To a small child, the world is an exciting but sometimes frightening and unstable place. In The Magic Years, Selma Fraiberg takes the reader into the mind of the child, showing how he confronts the world and learns to cope with it. With great warmth and percep... read more
I know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cu... read more
The Radical Luhmann

Hans-Georg Moeller

In The Radical Luhmann, Hans-Georg Moeller focuses on Luhmann's paradigm shift from philosophy to theory, which introduced new perspectives on the contemporary world. Boldly breaking with the heritage of Western thought, Luhmann denied the central role of huma... read more
Buddhist monasteries in medieval China employed a variety of practices to ensure their ascendancy and survival. Most successful was the exchange of material goods for salvation, as in the donation of land, which allowed monks to spread their teachings througho... read more
Through a probing investigation of conservative Christianity and its response to an issue that, according to the statistics of conservative Christian groups, affects only a small number of Americans, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey alights on a profound theological con... read more
"On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."—Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also ... read more
Over the past few decades, a wave of immigration has turned New York into a microcosm of the Americas and enhanced its role as the crossroads of the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds. Yet far from being an alien group within a "mainstream" and supposedly pu... read more
Treating men as a culturally distinct group, Rich Furman integrates key conceptions of masculinity into culturally sensitive social work practice with men. Focusing on veterans, displaced workers, substance abusers, mental health consumers, and other groups th... read more
Compiled by a leading scholar of Chinese poetry, Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown is the first collection of Chan (Zen) poems to be situated within Chan thought and practice. Combined with exquisite paintings by Charles Chu, the anthology compellingly capture... read more
In 2003, South African writer J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature. Coetzee was credited wit... read more

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