This is a redesign for The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. I went for a type only solution with a colour/graphic variable that would distinguish each issue.
Final cover with preliminary sketches below.
Logo for a local breadshare bakery. “La Croûte” is “The Crust” in english.
Turkish cover for Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 23 November - 14 December 1974
French translation of Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide
The first book in this series - Gateway to Fourline - had already been designed by another designer so the look and feel was established. That designer was unavailable for book 2 so the publisher asked me to do the second cover.
Final version on this one.
I did the Democracy in What State? cover about 5 years ago and the press asked if I could do another one in the same vein for a follow-up book.
Final cover with preliminary sketches below. The novel features a Michael Jackson impersonator. The challenge was to find of way of showing it without showing it. The image I used as source material is included as well.
A new series design. As my old boss used to say, the trick to doing a series design is that each cover must be different, but the same.
Pollux is the small format paperback imprint for Lux éditeur. They wanted a stripped down design that was just typographic in two colours. The word "Pollux" in the background changes colour with each book.
Another poetry cover with preliminary sketches below.
Final cover for this poetry book with the preliminary sketches below.
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