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  • Project Focus: Small Square Books
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  • Project Focus: Interior Design for Business Mensch by Noah Alper
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  • Project Focus: Book Cover Design for The Spirit of the River
  • Project Focus: The Poetry of the Typography of Poetry
  • Project Focus: Exotic Life by Lisa Alpine
  • Project Focus: Dancing on the River by Mark Susnow
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  • The Art of Illusion: Creating Book Cover Art for Joanna Penn's Pentecost
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