Hello! My name is Patrick Holt, and I’m a graphic designer, artist, and erstwhile librarian working in Durham, NC. (I also sell comics and zines by Triangle-based creators in an online / itinerant bookshop!)

My specialty is books and other publications! I design covers and interiors for scholarly presses, small presses, orgs, and self-publishing authors. Whether it’s your high-fantasy magnum opus, your annual report, your first poetry chapbooks, or anywhere in between, I’ll get your publication looking “right” for your work and your audience.

My secondary specialty is everything else! I design logos and other branding elements, posters and signage, and infographics and forms. I’m an artist and illustrator too, and I’ve even created a printing press for kitchen table printmakers!

I’ll work with just about anyone! Non-profits, arts institutions, government projects, small businesses, and anyone who wants to make information easier to access — these are all my kind of clients.

Get in touch with the form below, and let’s work together!

AI Policy

I do not knowingly create designs for/with text, images, or materials of other media that have been synthesized by the various technologies referred to as “artificial intelligence”, “large language models”, and so on. I do not use these technologies to create new works, including at the brainstorming or planning stages. I do not consent to my work or that of my clients to be added to AI/LLM datasets.

Please contact me with the form below for more information about this policy.

Selected Clients

• UNC Press
• Longleaf Services
• The Office of Scholarly Publishing Service at UNC Press
• Redhawk Press
• Sarah P. Duke Gardens
• The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University
• Triangle Book Arts
• Spence Counseling
• Durham County Library
• SciMed
• Durham Library Foundation
• Beth Palmer Studios
• UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
• Triangle Comics Creator Network
• Durham Comics Project
• Internationalist Books
• Carrboro Book Fair
• A Southern Season
• The BASIRA Project
• Durham Convention Center
• Downtown Durham, Inc.

Education

BFA in Graphic Design and Painting
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC

MLS in Library Science
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC