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I didn't really think they would go for a real heart on the cover but I gave it a shot. The book chronicles a father's experience wi...

Illustration for NY Times Magazine

From the brief: “Sumptuary laws in 17th century France were the legislated rules that determined what a person was permitted to wear accordi...

From the brief: "According to legend, Achilles used the plant yarrow during the Battle of Troy to help treat wounds. This is how the po...

I designed 20 of the Richard Stark (Parker) novels for the University of Chicago Press and they asked me to design the Grofield ones as wel...

The author suggested the idea of a double umbrella which is alluded to in the book. I must have spent my entire Saturday trying an assortmen...

This is book 3 in this series

These two just went through for the same press. The first one is a fictionalized memoir. The main character is a reporter for a yiddish pres...

Work in progress The title for this book of poetry is The Little Yellow House , in reference to Van Gogh's house in Arles. The tit...

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".