{"id":95276,"date":"2025-10-24T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/95276\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:03:08","slug":"jared-bartman-on-the-benefits-of-changing-career-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/95276\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Bartman on the benefits of changing career paths"},"content":{"rendered":"

The book cover designer talks to CR about joining the industry in his 30s and why he continues to work on his skills, hone his craft and push himself with every project<\/p>\n

For designer and illustrator Jared Bartman finding a signature style is a \u2018nice-to-have\u2019 rather than the goal, and instead his focus is on pushing his design \u201ctendencies in a new direction\u201d. Inspired by many different creatives, Bartman is keen to try his hand at various techniques with a view to developing \u201cseveral different stylistic modes or registers I can work in to fit different design briefs\u201d.<\/p>\n

This adaptability is partly informed by the fact that Bartman was a \u201clatecomer\u201d to the field. Having spent over a decade in non-design fields, he has a degree in English and music, and a bootcamp certification in UX\/UI design, the area of design he initially worked in when he made the pivot in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn retrospect, I wish I\u2019d gone to school for graphic design, but I didn\u2019t really start getting obsessed with design and illustration until I was around 32,\u201d says Bartman, who is based in the US. \u201cBut I\u2019ve always loved book covers. I remember really starting to take notice of book cover design as a field of work when I first encountered covers like Peter Mendelsund\u2019s Franz Kafka series, Charlotte Strick\u2019s cover for Roberto Bola\u00f1o\u2019s 2666, and Rodrigo Corral\u2019s full-book design for Jay-Z\u2019s Decoded.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"All images: Jared Bartman. Top: Crop of Shadow of the Mammoth by Fabio Mor\u00e1bito; Above: All Consuming: Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now by Ruby Tandoh, both published by Penguin Random House<\/p>\n

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