Choi to the World

Blogher

I am very excited to be finally going to a Blogher conference.  I missed the last two.  After looking at the agenda I don't know how I will decide what to attend!  I'll also be in one of my favorite cities.  Yikes, how will I stay focused!

God Spare Life

My latest design was finally released Monday, July 15th on the cover of God Spare Life by Dr. Claudia Thomas.  This is the autobiography of a remarkable woman I have been fortunate enough to meet and help bring her story to the public through WME Books.  I am thrilled to be a part of this exciting release, I am sure it will sell well as it is a story that we can all relate to.  Dr. Thomas has overcome what might seem like insurmountable odds, she lived through the 60s as a black student at a nearly all-white college, she survived a ravaging hurricane and kidney disease that should have killed her.  Along the way she became our county's first female African American orthapaedic surgeon.  This is a must read.  It is a human story that will touch and inspire.

God Spare Life was a great book cover to work on because Claudia was brave enough to entrust us with her life's collections of photos, magazine and newspaper clippings.  I sorted through piles of pictures to come up with what was included on the front cover.  Also, on the front cover is a beautiful symbol that Dr. Thomas came across one day carved into the doors of a church.  She was drawn to the symbol because it looks like two kidneys.  Part of her extraordinary life story includes a life saving kidney transplant donated by her sister, coincidently the symbol means "God is in the heavens" and symbolizes hope--a major theme in her book.  The symbol is Adinkra. Learn more here about Adinkra symbols.