approval pending
I presented a couple of options on this one. The book is an evolutionary history of religion beginning with the social lives of our primate ancestors. The author argues that religion is a psychological adaptation and a product of evolution based in the same phenomenon as our childhood need for imaginary friends.
I presented a couple of options on this one. The book is an evolutionary history of religion beginning with the social lives of our primate ancestors. The author argues that religion is a psychological adaptation and a product of evolution based in the same phenomenon as our childhood need for imaginary friends.
Animals of My Own Kind
Off to the printer
One of my New Years resolutions was to make my back covers more interesting.
One of my New Years resolutions was to make my back covers more interesting.
Keep it Real
Lee Gutkind
Proposed cover for a book about writing creative nonfiction. In the end we went in another direction (below).
Proposed cover for a book about writing creative nonfiction. In the end we went in another direction (below).
Just got approved. Illustration by the very talented Christoph Niemann
These are other ideas for the salon des refusés.
These are other ideas for the salon des refusés.
approval pending
From the cover brief: The central theme of the book is the role played by resentment and revenge in the history – that is, the kind of resentment that emerges out of a form of humiliation or suffering experienced by an individual or group or even a nation, and that subsequently turns into an act of violence or revenge. I think we are going in a different direction on this one but I like the way the image interacts with the type to reinforce the theme of the book.
From the cover brief: The central theme of the book is the role played by resentment and revenge in the history – that is, the kind of resentment that emerges out of a form of humiliation or suffering experienced by an individual or group or even a nation, and that subsequently turns into an act of violence or revenge. I think we are going in a different direction on this one but I like the way the image interacts with the type to reinforce the theme of the book.
Animals
Don LePan
This cover is going into final production. From the back cover: Animals is a powerful novel set in an indeterminate future in which virtually all the species that humans have for millennia used as food have become extinct; the world this change creates is at once eerily foreign and disturbingly familiar.
I started by purchasing a set of dishes for $16.92 at Canadian Tire and went to work on my back porch
Line art for Delft china elements.
This cover is going into final production. From the back cover: Animals is a powerful novel set in an indeterminate future in which virtually all the species that humans have for millennia used as food have become extinct; the world this change creates is at once eerily foreign and disturbingly familiar.
I started by purchasing a set of dishes for $16.92 at Canadian Tire and went to work on my back porch
Line art for Delft china elements.
I Sing the Body Politic
Peter Swirski
Cowboy boots as bookends for the Bush Era.
From the back cover:
The end of George W. Bush's imperial presidency means that the wreckage of the republic's political ideals is now subject to a vigorous reassessment. In essays by five senior scholars, major works of American literature and film are analyzed in the context of a larger set of arguments about American injustice at home and across the empire.
"Though a unique combination of scholarship, readability, and what might be described as moral outrage, I Sing the Body Politic makes its point in a very telling way. Beautifully written, and based on an impressive amount of research, it casts a devastating light on the Bush administration and the political order in recent years."
Cowboy boots as bookends for the Bush Era.
From the back cover:
The end of George W. Bush's imperial presidency means that the wreckage of the republic's political ideals is now subject to a vigorous reassessment. In essays by five senior scholars, major works of American literature and film are analyzed in the context of a larger set of arguments about American injustice at home and across the empire.
"Though a unique combination of scholarship, readability, and what might be described as moral outrage, I Sing the Body Politic makes its point in a very telling way. Beautifully written, and based on an impressive amount of research, it casts a devastating light on the Bush administration and the political order in recent years."
I found this in the river at the back of our farm. It is part of old tree root that had grown around a small stone.
A really interesting blog for found images:
estupepidia
A really interesting blog for found images:
estupepidia
Divided Korea
Ronald Bleiker
I was given a selection of photographs to work from for this two colour cover. I really loathe duotones and whenever possible I like to use cropping and contrast to give the cover more impact.
I was given a selection of photographs to work from for this two colour cover. I really loathe duotones and whenever possible I like to use cropping and contrast to give the cover more impact.
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. There was something about the positioning of the Goodyear blimp above the red flower that was perfect. I had to rework the photograph quite a bit to make the red flower really pop.
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 so I still managed to get it on the cover albeit in a less off-putting way.
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 reworked it for the final cover.
Before We had Words
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.
The kind of cover you could only get away with on a poetry book. Yes I know the type is really small.
Her Mothers Ashes
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't look like one of my covers. I never would have considered using Bodoni Swashes as a cover font until I saw Barbara de Wilde's amazing Milk cover.
Weed Man
The Remarkable Journey of Jimmy Divine
John McCaslin
This printed and laminated cloth cover has a velum jacket that allows the art to show through. Jimmy's name is visible in the negative spaces between the leaves. I just picked it up at my P.O. box on the other side of the border and needless to say it raised a few eyebrows with the custom agents on the way back.
John McCaslin
This printed and laminated cloth cover has a velum jacket that allows the art to show through. Jimmy's name is visible in the negative spaces between the leaves. I just picked it up at my P.O. box on the other side of the border and needless to say it raised a few eyebrows with the custom agents on the way back.
Canada’s Game
This one would fall into the category of just getting out of the way of a great photograph.
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