I love a good publication design project—this one had it all with shape and composition explorations on the cover and interior typesetting to establishing type hierarchy and easy-to-scan layouts.
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Miss Abracadabra by Tom Ross
In lyrical prose, debut author Tom Ross tells a story of intergenerational change and conflict in a Black American family in the pre-Civil Rights era. My design for this cover played upon several excerpts I collected from the book that allude to “the vast cold dark,” “a drowned world,” and a “dark, out of site […]
Lend Me Your Character by Dubravka Ugresic
Dubravka Ugresic’s novella “Štefica Cvek in the Jaws of Life” opens this new edition of one of her most beloved collections, Lend Me Your Character. The opening novella is perfectly wry and witty, and the story’s sewing guide motif inspired my cover concept here. About Dubravka Ugresic: She’s the author of seven works of fiction, […]
Not One Day by Anne Garréta
Not One Day by Anne Garréta and translated by Emma Ramadan begins with a maxim: “Not one day without a woman.” Organized alphabetically, Not One Day explores the interplay between memory, fantasy, and desire, recounting the evanescent thrill of loves and lovers past and dismissing the ultimatum of truth in favor of an enigmatic assemblage. The second edition […]
Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories
Edited by Ali Kinsella, Zenia Tompkins, and Ross Ufberg, this story collection featuring acclaimed, award-winning contemporary voices from Ukraine will be published in September 2022 by Deep Vellum in collaboration with TAULT, the Tompkins Agency for Ukrainian Literature in Translation. All proceeds from this collection are intended for humanitarian aid for Ukraine, and you can […]
Thank You for Not Reading by Dubravka Ugresic
Dubravka Ugresic’s Thank You for Not Reading was due for a new printing in spring of 2022 and Open Letter Books reached out for a fresh cover design. I liked the sass in the original cover but we gravitated toward the tongue-in-cheek reference to the “Thank you for Not” signage for this edition. A little […]
Made to Market by Sarah Stahl
Marketing guru Sarah Stahl needed a logo refresh and a book designed from cover to cover. We ended up with an energizing color palette and a bold, expressive overall design for both the book and her branding. My work on this project included branding design, book cover design, and typesetting for the hard cover, paperback, […]
Writing Gifts presented by Naomi Shihab Nye & Austin Bat Cave
Client: Austin Bat Cave Collaborators: Naomi Shihab Nye & Emily ChammahPrinter: Spencer Printing Inc. This little beauty of a book radiates warmth and positivity. My concept for Writing Gifts required some die cutting and I started out sketching how the book would fold open. I wanted something that mindfully involved the process of opening the […]
Dispatches from the Republic of Letters
This handsome hardcover anthology features the literary world’s finest from Gabriel García Marquez to Edwidge Danticat. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, this book collects writings by the prize’s laureates over the years. I remained minimal in the design for this anthology leading with bold lettering and a […]
In the Days of Our Undoing
In the Days of Our Undoing: September – November 2020 is the third book in a series that documents the odyssey of the poet and singer-songwriter, Nathan Brown, as he explores the new world of “no more live gigs.”
In the Days of Our Unrest
In the Days of Our Unrest: June – August 2020 is the second book in a series that documents the odyssey of the poet and singer-songwriter, Nathan Brown, as he explores the new world of “no more live gigs.”
In the Days of Our Seclusion
In the Days of Our Seclusion: March – May 2020 is the first book in a series that documents the odyssey of the poet and singer-songwriter, Nathan Brown, as he explores the new world of “no more live gigs.”