This one required a lot of tweaking to make sure people got the idea readily. One of the last 08 covers - what a year!

Edited by Sylvia Bashevkin This is another one of those covers where the title drives the design.

The Alcoholhic Monkeys of St. Kitts I found this in my files when I was cleaning out my office. Maisonneuve is a Montreal based magazine - ...

Raymond Breton et al. This cover must have taken an entire day to produce. I literally had to thread each of those needles in photoshop.

William Epstein

Grant McCracken Book cover as disposable piece of packaging.

I just did an interview with Christopher Tobias that you can check out here . He is a very talented cover designer and you can check out his...

White and Wilbert, editors This cover plays off another cover I did recently. I find this happens quite frequently where cover solutions bu...

Richard Stark Number 4 in this series . A jugger is a safecracker.

Joseph Contreras

Christopher N. Kendall I would put this cover into the "type only with a twist" category.

From the brief: "The mother, Isabel, pays the rent with an all-night job delivering newspapers out of her van. And the climactic sectio...

This catalogue cover concept owes a debt to Woody Pirtle's great 1989 poster for the UCLA summer studies program. He crafted a palm tree...

This is one of my recent covers. It gets my vote for the best subtitle of all time.

Joan Crate From the brief: "the book makes an analogy between a suburban wife who is dealing with loneliness, divorce, aging, and copio...

Don Akenson This is a two volume series. There is nothing that original about having an image go over two covers in a series but in this cas...

I had sort of given up on using references to constructivism on a book cover design mainly because it has been done so many times. However i...

I just got asked to submit cover designs to a design competition where the entries only use classic fonts and I was reminded of this quote b...

Christopher Willard From the brief: Sundre is a town in Alberta. The cover for this novel is challenging because we don’t want Prairies and ...

Here are the final two in this series. Each Man's Son is a novel set in Cape Breton in a coal mining community. It features a violent d...

Jeff Mapes A straight up solution for this cover seemed to be what was called for. The tricky part was finding the right cyclist. I must hav...

I think this approach is interesting because the two pairings are not how they originally seem to appear.

Eric Lichtblau

Very simple idea but it seemed perfect for this cover.

Just got approved. This is a poetry cover and this is the part of the poem that inspired it: ...It’s the doorstopper- ability of phonebooks,...

This one just went through. That is a book on the cover believe it or not.

Two more in this ongoing series

This cover just got approved. It will be printed on semi translucent paper over a printed case. It is the story a marijuana smuggler in the ...

Art Corriveau This is a book of short stories. The title story was the inspiration for the cover. The lead character Paul had a Mémère (word...

I am still working on this one. A little more tweaking required but the idea is there.

This is an illustration I did for a cover about the use of wire-tapping on American cititzens. I am working on a second concept which I thin...

I am working on this one right now. It is a book of poetry. This jar of used birthday candles is in one of my cupboards and I've been wa...

Marina Endicott This book is short listed for a Giller prize. The main character is an older woman who is involved in a car accident with an...

Paul Chaat Smith This has already been posted but there are two updates. The author gave his approval and I made contact with the photograph...

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.