The boot won out in the end but the sock was my first shot at it.
Final cover with preliminary sketch below. I liked the fact that the Nazi eagle had captured all the atoms in orbit but it was deemed too complicated and hard to decode.
This is a memoir, originally published in 1930, about the authors experience at the front during the First World War, from 1916 until the Armistice.
A history of two prominent families in the history of Québec - one english the other french.
A recent cover with a preliminary sketch below. The novel takes place in Russia during the Cold War. The main character is a fan of early American rock and roll, and is in love with a beautiful woman who he considers his biblical Rachel. They wanted a nod to American graphic design of the era.
This this is the stamping for a recent cover with the paperback below.
From the vault.
Turkish edition of Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
Turkish edition of Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson
Kind of cool. Full page ad in The New York Times Book Review section. Did the cover, the ad layout and the press logo.
These covers have won in Communication Arts Design Annuals going back to 2000.
My work space
An intellectual is someone who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is someone who says a difficult thing in a simple way. –Charles Bukowski
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. –R. Buckminster Fuller
A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one. I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I