Book Covers

Covers designed for the McGill-Queen's University Press in Montreal, 2003. The first was an unorthodox type treatment for an academic subject, but the press felt it related well to the un-integrated relationship between education and the working world which is the subject of the book.

The King Edward II covers relate to a very unconventional leader's forceful life and death. The first cover uses wood type scanned from posters I brought back from an internship at Hatch Show Print in Nashville.

Following covers were submissions to the press which I designed to get my first contract with them. All use my own photography (the tiger resides stuffed, in a vitrine in the St. John's Newfoundland airport). I focused on areas of interest which straddle both the academic and trade markets, which often requires books to compare visually to contemporary fiction in quality and tone, as they ideally aim to sit on the shelves opposite them at large chain bookstores’Äînot only in libraries.