Jennifer P. Matthews The publisher wanted something punchy and fun as befits the subject. It took a bit of convincing but the the repeating ...

Henry J. Frundt The "banana type" one below was the first one I presented but in the end the simpler and stronger concept won out.

Another type only cover. This is the final accepted version. I presented this one knowing that it wouldn't be accepted but felt I had to...

Rita Dhamoon Another 2 colour cover. Just got approved. This is from the brief: "The three main ideas are the production of differences...

Peter Swirski From the back cover: "In The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem, American and European scholars offer an inter-disciplinary...

Judith Green Green maps a contemporary form of citizenship that emphasizes participation and cooperation and reclaims the critical role of s...

Catherine Gidney From the back cover copy: "Gidney shows that the decline of the Protestant presence on University campuses started wit...

Rethinking Political Culture Ailsa Henderson Nunavut is the new Canadian territory that was established in April 1999. That date appears on ...

Jaspreet Singh This is the second cover I have done for this writer. 17 Tomatoes was the first one. Jaspreet was involved in the creative p...

Cary Clack This is a collections of Columns by Cary Clack. Every once in a while you are given a title for a book that is so strong that it ...

John Howland Originally I intended to make the cover look like a vintage NY subway car with all the type worked into the signage. It seemed ...

John Lane From the cover copy: "Centering an old, chipped saucer over his home, he traced a circle one mile in radius and set out to ex...

This is book about wealth and privilege in New York city at the turn of the last century. I must have spent an entire afternoon trying to ge...

Niall Ferguson Another one that got away.

Margaret Wooster When you are doing covers for University Presses you rarely have the budget for stock photography. I created this cover out...

Richard Matthews

Warwick Anderson Sometimes you get such a great image to work with that your only job as a cover designer is to get out of the way.

Norton M. Hadler M.D. I found this Dr. Suess-like image and thought it could work really well for this cover. The only thing I added was the...

Ralph Salisbury This book of stories deals with the horrors of war. These covers represent two executions of the same idea. I only presented...

I just finished number nine in this series of philosophy books published in the UK. These are some of the ones that got away

The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors Fatigue. Chronic pain. Insomnia. Depression. These are just a few of the ongoing, debilitating...

I started my career by being immersed in corporate identity work (Domtar logo c.1999). I still love doing logo designs and all the more when...

Connie Braun From the back cover copy: "... invites the reader to embark on a journey that traces the paths of ancestral memory over th...

Amy Shaw This cover is just going through as I write this. The first sketch is below. Usually when you get an e-mail from a publisher statin...

Susan Drummond From the back cover copy: "... through small- and large-scale studies of Gitano marriage law in a modern urban centre, a...

Indra Sinha Animal is the main character in this novel. As a child he was horribly disfigured by the explosion of a pesticide chemical facil...

This was another one that got away. It was for a book about how the USA is over medicating itself.