approval pending Very simple idea. I like how the pages separate between Canada and the U.S.

I am still working on this cover. We are going to go with another direction but there was something I liked about this. The book is about me...

The author had taken some photographs of Los Angeles and I was given a selection to work with. This one caught my attention right away. Ther...

This one is almost put to bed. In the end a simpler approach was called for. I used four different flourishes (worms) in the frame element ...

Daniel Pambianchi preliminary sketches

We did advanced review copies for this book and when I got first saw it my reaction was less than positive - it lacked finesse. I have rewo...

S. P. Zitner The kind of cover you could only get away with on a poetry book. Yes I know the type is really small.

This one took quite a bit of back and forth to arrive at the final result. One of the reasons I kind of like the end result is that it doesn...

The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine John McCaslin This printed and laminated cloth cover has a velum jacket that allows the art to show ...

This one would fall into the category of just getting out of the way of a great photograph.

Peter Van Toorn The font I used for this cover went out of circulation for a while but is back now. Wonky font for sure but the italic is ki...

Unusual approach for this poetry cover. The publisher went for the dye-cut holes which is pretty cool.

I was hard at work staring at my computer screen when I looked to my left and remembered that the sheep are back. They migrate back and fort...

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...