Edward W. Sarah I wanted the type on this cover to convey "improvisation" and thought reflecting it in the trombone would be inter...

Quill and Quire , which is our version of Publishers Weekly , does a regular feature on the process of developing a cover. They asked me to ...

This cover got selected for 50 Books/50 Covers this year. There is a spot UV varnish on the wet part of the boot.

I was backing up my files and found this rejected cover for a poetry book . I was actually the one who rejected it. It wasn't the right ...

A packaging project I am working on now. The illustrator is the very talented Barbara Zuckerman .

Just finished this project last week.

Stewart J. Cohen and Melissa W. Waddell

This one is another challenge and brings up a common problem for cover designers. When you are presented with a multitude of images to use o...

One of the benefits of living on the US border is that the Adirondacks are literally in your backyard. Probably should have been working but...

Just wrapped this one up. Misandry for those who don't know, including me when I was briefed on this, is the hatred of men.

This cover took a couple of kicks at the can before we settled on the this one. It falls into that category of solutions where once you come...

Fiona Tinwei Lam Even though I have baked a lot of loaves of bread in my life I still get the same thrill each time I open the oven and see ...

This one was a tough one. Paraphrasing the author: The thesis of the book is that a distinction can be made between two types of objects: on...

The brief for this cover was to somehow convey the sense that the book is a really a conversation between two philosophers. The cover with t...

approval pending Do you think there is an unwritten law in graphic design that you can't put a tapeworm on the cover of a book?

I love doing catalogue covers. Because they are more ephemeral than book covers you can push the limits a little further.

Thurston is one of Canada's best know nature poets. I added in the tree branches on the edge at the last minute. I was actually closing ...

There was no budget for stock photography on this one so I shot it myself. I ran over to a friends house this morning to photograph his cano...

This is a recently approved cover for a poetry book. Boxing the compass refers to the ability to memorize all 32 points on a compass. It als...

Approval pending . These kind of subjects present their own challenges. How can you say something original about a subject that has been so ...

Approval pending.

This one proved tougher than most. It is a novel about a dystopian future where livestock have become extinct. The final chosen solution is ...

Have you ever seen a more conflicted looking war hero? The book is about a French-Canadian soldier who is awarded the Victoria Cross, the hi...

Just coming up for air. What a last couple of weeks!! This is a recent cover I worked on. Not sure it will be accepted but there was somethi...

Another one in the works. Small format 6 x 6 with the possibility of extra colours or special printing techniques.

I am working on this one right now. The book deals with the fact that Freud didn't have the benefit of the all the advances that have be...

Méira Cook

This is a t-shirt design I am working on. The only stipulation is that I have to use the barb wire element from their logo.

Rod Preece This cover was one of several that won in the AAUP (Association of American University Presses) book and jacket show. The version...

Now there are six.

Christopher Nowlin