This is a book about Buddhism in Canada. The authors wanted geese on the cover. My goal was to find an unusual way of presenting them.
I think it would almost be impossible to produce an interesting cover using Canada geese from the typical vantage point below. Like all of our national symbols they have been over utilized.
One of the issues with doing press catalogue covers is that you are actually designing the spring cover in the fall. We had a severe frost last night so there aren't many flowers left. This was the last one still hanging on.
The author insists on using this image and it sounds like it is non-negotiable. This one is going to be a challenge - but I'm up for it.
approval pending
I presented a couple of options on this one. The book is an evolutionary history of religion beginning with the social lives of our primate ancestors. The author argues that religion is a psychological adaptation and a product of evolution based in the same phenomenon as our childhood need for imaginary friends.
approval pending
Work in progress
Book is about how New Englanders created new myths about the extinction of indian tribes to serve their own colonial interests. No indians, no prior claims to the land.
These covers have won in Communication Arts Design Annuals going back to 2000.
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An intellectual is someone who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is someone who says a difficult thing in a simple way. –Charles Bukowski
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. –R. Buckminster Fuller
A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one. I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I