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Article: Uncovered talent: Hannah Booth navigates Random House creative director Suzanne Dean's book mountains to find out how her team works and what inspires their designs.(Client Profile)
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- October 9, 2003
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SUZANNE DEAN is surrounded by books. Her office has floor to ceiling shelves crammed with them. Piles of them lurk under her desk, ready to topple, and there are more by the door, making a bid for freedom. Her home, she tells me, is packed with books. And she spends every moment at work thinking about them.
As creative director at London publishing giant Random House, Dean has the enviable job of designing book covers. She oversees 12 imprints, among them Heinemann, Chatto, Vintage and Secker & Warburg.
She's passionate about sleeves' importance. 'Books don't have long to catch people's attention in store, a few seconds maybe. It's the cover's job to ...