Pakistani Truck Artist Paints Granta Cover
By Jason Boog on GalleyCat, Sep 07, 2010

Today Granta unveiled that gorgeous cover for Granta 112, painted by truck and bus artist Islam Gull from a Bhutta village in Karachi.

Released this fall, the new Pakistan-themed issue will feature work by Daniyal Mueenuddin, Fatima Bhutto, and Lorraine Adams working with Ayesha Nasir.

Here's more from the journal: " Gull, born in Peshawar, has been painting since the age of thirteen. Twenty-two years ago he settled in Karachi, where he now teaches his craft to two young apprentices. In addition to trucks and buses, Gull decorates buildings and housewares and has worked for several consulates in Karachi, as well as traveling to Kandahar, Afghanistan to paint trucks there. Commissioned with the assistance of the British Council in Karachi, Gull produced two chipboard panels to be photographed for the magazine's cover, using the same industrial paints with which he embellishes Pakistani trucks."

Cover design has been a hot topic around the publishing industry today. Following our report on Bob Woodward's new book, Evil Wylie released a satirical cover design for the upcoming book about President Barack Obama.