We all have to do them once in a while and it is always a challenge. This one is about the geopolitics of resources. I wanted to create a ve...

Sometimes you come up with a solution and think that it is either too obvious or that it must have been done before. This was the first one ...

Dean Bavington From the brief: The commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was once the most successful in the world. When it co...

Michael Harris This is the rough sketch that was approved. I am going to have to photograph the detritus in the foreground and integrate it ...

approved

This one evolved a bit. The client felt the two books under the same jacket wasn't obvious enough and that it needed to be punchier.

approval pending This was the photograph supplied. It is definitely interesting and has cover potential but sometimes you just run out of ne...

In progress Canada purchased part of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 but never actually received them.

This book is about how neoliberalism created the economic meltdown and its impact on ordinary people. References the Odessa steps sequence f...

approval pending I liked the idea of a countdown of stamps denoting the "strange death" of britishness in Canada. These stamps com...

This was the first sketch I presented and it kind of received a lukewarm reception. I decided to go back to one of my original ideas. I like...

cover in progress I found this image online about how to tie a noose and I thought it could work for this cover.

another cover in progress

Richard Greene Off to the printer I did the sketch quite a while back. The photo comes from a travel site I found on the web by Gemeah Howar...

This is a book about Buddhism in Canada. The authors wanted geese on the cover. My goal was to find an unusual way of presenting them. I thi...

One of the issues with doing press catalogue covers is that you are actually designing the spring cover in the fall. We had a severe frost l...

The author insists on using this image and it sounds like it is non-negotiable. This one is going to be a challenge - but I'm up for it.

approval pending I presented a couple of options on this one. The book is an evolutionary history of religion beginning with the social live...

approval pending

Work in progress Book is about how New Englanders created new myths about the extinction of indian tribes to serve their own colonial intere...

Off to the printer One of my New Years resolutions was to make my back covers more interesting.

Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots Min Hyoung Song

Lee Gutkind Proposed cover for a book about writing creative nonfiction. In the end we went in another direction (below).

This is new YA series I am working on. Each story is told in the first person - single voice. The logo for series has been accepted but we a...

Edited by Michel Seymour

Mark McLeod-Harrison

Annie Jacobsen

approval pending

This is a preliminary image for a novel that is about the crazy mixed up life of a man and his multiple concurrent marriages.

Approval pending Title refers to small wax wish boats.

Just got approved. Illustration by the very talented Christoph Niemann These are other ideas for the salon des refusés.

This one is approved. Below is another option I presented.