Client

Chris Alker

Role

Graphic Designer

Description

The cover and interior design for this book on DJing’s art and culture.

While examining its historical roots, the text also serves as a practical guide for those seeking to learn DJing.

The design employs clean, structured layouts and precise typography, strategically integrating geometric shapes inspired by vinyl records and album spines. This ensures the book visually reflects the author’s tone of sophistication, confidence, and reverence.

From the author

“This book is a labor of love rooted in practice, not theory. It revolves around DJing, DJ culture, dance music, and nightlife. It is a collection of personal stories, ideas, histories, and observations roughly grouped by theme, but can be read in any order or in part without consequence. It contains a large body of previously published work not found in one place until now. Most of the work has been rewritten and new material, exclusive to this book, has been added. While the book contains historical elements that have been fact checked using the most available information, it is not an exhaustive resource and should not be treated as such. It is designed to entertain and inspire DJs and subcultural enthusiasts alike without bogging down the reader with unnecessary rigor that would distract him or her from the ideas that are at the heart of the text.”

Credits

Chris Alker, author
Ryan Lauderdale, illustrator
Chris Alker, client