This is the art for a cover I am working on now. Book is about Shakespeare and how he confounded the pretensions and designs of kings in his...

This is a redesign for The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science . I went for a type only solution w...

This is a magazine illustration I am working on now. Article is about how we are exposed to music almost every waking hour of the day.

An unused concept I did for a book about an unusual love affair.

Robin Landa Great book! It is the best book out there on design and the design process. Josh Chen from Chen Design Associates did a really ...

Kinda cool. Red Squrrel logo got into the CA Design Annual this year.

A book within a book. From the brief: SylviaWeisler is under contract with a small publisher to write a non-fiction book about personals adv...

One more for the Salon des refusés Wasn't the right approach for this book in the end but still kind of intriguing.

This cover took more than a couple of attempts to get it finalized. The first concept made it into the catalogue with reservations from the ...

And another maple leaf. I did this a while back and it is just going into production now.

Illustration for New York Times Sunday Book Review

I have done so many covers over the years that deal with Canada as subject matter. It runs the gamut and covers issues such as federalism, f...

Karma Lochrie

This is a modern day Romance for immigrants, for frequent travelers, and for restless and rootless spirits. (from the brief). The title refe...

12th installment in the series.

I was talking to someone recently about designing book covers. The easy part for me is getting the cover concept down. You launch these cove...

This is novel that features a talking crow. In an earlier sketch I had showed a mink diving under water but there was just something so inco...

After all these years with probably 30 catalogue covers under my belt I figured it was time to discover my inner scot. Yes that is the McGil...

Illustration work.

The author suggested using an old map of Canada in this way - highlighting specific regions. I was almost convinced that there was no way to...

New poetry cover. From the brief: "a cartographer's log of an inner landscape"

Maybe a little on the obvious side but when I found the image it seemed like a perfect fit with the title.

New packaging project I am working on. There will be a selection of different oils available. It will use a system of two stickers per bottl...

The book deals with the execution of a Chinese sugar smuggler in the 1930's.

Approval pending

My hugely talented wife, Gail McGowan, has started a blog to show off her wire scuptures. This is a recent one she did. There are a bunch o...

approval pending I had a really long list of authors to include on this one and wanted to find an unusual way of doing it.

This is a photo illustration I just did for the New York Times Magazine . It is part of their "key" series where they ask designer...

Approval pending Suggestion was made to show an apple pie with more flys than I had on the cupcake

approval pending First sketch was rejected. Once I got my hands on the actual recipes I knew there was a way to use them on the cover.