Working on an updated cover for Ben Jacks’ forthcoming book A House and its Atmosphere via Culicidae Architectural Press with a blurb by David Leatherbarrow, Professor and Chair of the Graduate Group in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Client: Culicidae Architectural Press Project: Book Cover
Category Archives: Book Design
Cover Designs for Rachel Longstaff Book
Final version of cover as published. This summer we were tasked by Culicidae Press to design a cover for a forthcoming book by Rachel Odhner Longstaff called In the Shadow of the Dragon’s Back: A Young American Girl in South Africa During the Early Years of Apartheid. The book is a memoir about Longstaff growing […]
Book Cover for Careri’s “Walkscapes”
Culicidae Architectural Press is releasing a new English edition of Francesco Careri’s classic Walkscapes: Walking as An Aesthetic Practice this fall, and we were asked to design the interior and the cover. The book was republished in Spanish in 2012, and the original bilingual English/Spanish edition is no longer in print. The book is both […]
Book Cover for “I Remembered”
This was a difficult cover to design. The author, Kristene E. Friday (pseudonym), whose book will be published through Culicidae Press, was sexually abused as a child but suppressed the memories until she was forty-nine years old and had a breakdown. In the text she describes her emotional state vividly, and based on some of […]
Book Cover Design for Joseph D. Reich
Version 1 For Hog Press we were tasked to design a book cover for a book by Vermont-based author Joseph D. Reich’s intriguingly titled How To Order Chinese During A Hostage Crisis: Dialects, Existential Essays, A Play, And Other Poems, to be published this summer. I prefer the red one but the author had his […]
Ad Copy Design for Brantley’s Transatlantic Trio
Here are two ads I put together for The Scriblerian and the Wordsworth Circle to advertise Richard Brantley’s Transatlantic Trio book. It’s suprising how photogenious a book looks in the morning sun in Iowa outside the Culicidae Press offices… Client: Culicidae Press, LLC, Ames, Iowa
Cover for Park Ranger David Dutton’s Forthcoming Book
Version 1 I’ve been working on the cover design for David Dutton’s forthcoming book Paid in Sunsets: A Park Ranger’s Story (to be published this fall by Culicidae Press), and here are some early versions (ugly babies)…
Book Cover Design for Jan Dale
Here’s the cover for Jan Dale’s forthcoming book (via the independent Family Success Press) One Giant Psychological Leap for Humankind. Jan is a retired psychologist who earned a Ph.D. from Boston University and then returned to his home state of Iowa where he began working as the Chief Psychologist for the Central Iowa Mental Health […]
Cover for New Book by Jonathan P. Coron
Just finished the initial version of a new book cover for Jonathan P. Coron’s Survival Manual for Substitute Teachers, to be published by Hog Press some time this fall. Other iterations to follow soon…
Book Design for Phenix Books
Just finished a book design (interior and cover) for a Phenix Books publication by Catherine Miller. The author wrote an auto/biography about her relationship with her autistic brother. She wanted to have photographs of her brother on the cover. After initially working with grayscale images I decided to colorize several of the photographs. In consultation […]