David Everitt
           book designer based in los angeles


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SHORT STORIES

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In 2022 I gave myself a challenge of making a book a week for 16 weeks. I was in a bit of a rut after getting out of production work and needed a push. The premise was simple: same format each week, but different subjects. Each book could be about whatever I wanted. And no preplanning. Each week started over with a blank slate.

I had been drawn to photography since I was young so the visuals came pretty easy. But not being comfortable writing, I struggled with the stories. I found an old letter in a collection, written by my great-grandfather who I had never met. In the letter, to his parents, he wrote about his baby daughter. Wait, that’s my grandmother! Things click, pieces come together. Now this is something! I ask my mother’s cousin if she has any family letters. Actually I do, she says, probably 300. Now I’m hooked and away we go.

I start bringing in text and stories from whatever I could find: letters, my own journal entries, guidebook pages, newspaper stories. Some books had no text at all and that’s ok too. I dug around and unearthed old slides from photography projects, trip journals, short films I shot years ago. The weekly deadlines prevented me from talking myself out of everything. It was a good thing.

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