Sketch for upcoming catalogue cover. Hand lettering will remain but final will use textured papers.

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Big Oil as rapacious sea serpent. Another one for the Salon des refusés This is the source photograph from Shutterstock.

Book covers to flour bags - just got this from the printers.

I am sure every cover designer can relate to this. How many times are you supplied with a black and white image for a cover and have to make...

After 10 years I figured it was time to update my website

Betty Jane Hegerat This is a work of fiction based on the murder case of Robert Cook, who in 1959 murdered his entire family. From the back ...

Went in another direction but this was one of the initial sketches.

Cover art for a book on the history of Portland.

another work in progress I found an old school furniture catalogue which happened to cover the period in the book perfectly.

Work in progress As is often the case with scholarly books this cover came with suggested artwork (below). For the me the challenge is a...

One from a couple of years back.

Art that I am working on for a book the debunks the myth that China is buying the world.

John Bertram and Marco Sonzogni are publishing a book on Lolita covers and asked a slew of cover designers to contribute conceptual co...

Final cover for this one with two preliminary sketches below. The brief was to convey "typographic man".

According to the brief it was important to convey the negative, destructive aspects of lying on society.

work in progress I spent the afternoon looking through the Library of Congress's online collection of Civil War photographs. I must have...

This was the first sketch I proposed for this cover. A book of the collected prefaces to the novels of Henry James.

work in progress

off to the printers

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What is it with mason jars and book cover designers? This was from a while back.

New guide book in same series as the one below.

This one got into 50/50 this year.

A recent scholarly book. I extended the backdrop around the bricklayer to isolate the figure more - like an Irving Penn portrait.

We went in a different direction in the end but this was one of the initial sketches for this cover. It is a little stark for a trade book ...

Illustration for a cover I am working on about Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press. My intention was to have this letterform p...

What I really like about the final cover chosen for this non-fiction book is that it defies the clichés for the genre - open roads, big skie...

This is a logo I am working on for a violin maker.

A social history of protestants and catholics in Forkhill parish on the Ulster borderlands between 1787 and 1858. The author contends that...

I have done a couple of journal redesigns recently and love the challenge of showing "different but the same" as my old boss used ...

I was backing up some old covers and came across this one again. The biggest pitfall when doing scholarly books are those wordy titles and s...

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One of my favourite presses is celebrating their 50th year. They were among my first clients and I have been doing their covers for the last...