Final cover with first round sketches below to show how it evolved. A Brooklyn brownstone figures prominently in the novel.
Just arrived from Turkey. Paperback with jacket. Translation of Robert Seethalers’ The Tobacconist.
Turkish edition of The Halfway House by Guillermo Rosales.
Elgin has a shiny new plow. I dropped by the town garage recently to apply the town's logo, which I designed a while back.
MQUP Spring 2018
The More Known World is the second book in this series.
Preliminary sketches below
Turkish translation of the novel The Tobacconist. A young Austrian moves to Vienna in 1937 to apprentice with a tobacconist in his shop. One of the regular customers is Sigmund Freud who becomes a mentor to the young man.
These covers have won in Communication Arts Design Annuals going back to 2000.
My work space
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