Month: January 2014

Photography Book Cover Design

The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin: Book cover for The University of Wisconsin Press. The cheesemakers featured in this book are the rock stars of the cheese industry. I…

Meeting Eve book

Book cover and interior design for Janee Pennington‘s Meeting Eve: A Novel. Launched January 16, 2014.

Cover Art for Novel

The Baileys Harbor Bird and Booyah Club: Book cover for a comedic novel about retired life in Door County, Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Press.

Poetry Book Design

Book design for Voodoo Inverso, a Felix Pollak Poetry Prize winner. University of Wisconsin Press.

Interior Book Design

Back matter opening page for the historical novel Sinful Folk, which continues to earn rave reviews. 400 pages at 5.5 x 8.5.

Book Design: Sinful Folk

Book design for Sinful Folk by Ned Hayes coming out in late January 2014. Based on a true story, the novel is impeccably researched and graced with beautiful language. It’s…

Book Illustration

Grand Manan. 4 x 4 illustration. An example of a series of color and black and white illustrations I made for Willa Cather scholar Sue Hallgarth‘s book, On the Rocks:…

Mystery Series Covers

I hadn’t designed a series of novels before, so I’m excited by the challenge of Patricia Skalka’s Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries (University of Wisconsin Press). Each mystery will…

History Book Cover Design

Cover Art for a film history book. I had a low resolution film still to work with and added stock photography.

Cookbook Cover Art and Design

Cookbook cover for Wild Rice Goose and Other Dishes of the Upper Midwest by John Motoviloff. The author, UW press production manager, and I did a quaint photo…

CD Sticker

Accompanies a textbook, University of Wisconsin Press

Audio Supplement

CD cover insert design.

Textbook Design

Filipino Tapestry: Tagalog Language Through Culture (University of Wisconsin Press). Package includes book cover and CD.

My Diva

My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them, edited by Michael Montlack. Inspiring, funny, heart-breaking stories about growing up gay. The contributors describe their  private,…

Interior Book Design and Typesetting

Book interior design, title page, 6 x 9.

Bingo Queens, History Book Design

The Bingo Queens of Onieda: How Two Moms Started Tribal Gaming in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press). I love it when women finally get their place in history!

Bingo Queens Chapter Opening

Interior text design for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.

This Wicked Rebellion

Sample page from a selection of letters and photographs from the Wisconsin Historical Society collections. The letters retained as much as possible their original appearance, including typos, use…

Forest, up

Acrylic, 3 ft x 3 ft.

Wisconsin Talks

Yah! This book has both academic and general audience interest. The authors wanted to feature examples of  Wisconsin dialects—there are quite a few, actually—that derive from German, Norwegian,…

Wisconsin Book Design

Book cover, When Horses Pulled the Plow: Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910–1929 by Olaf F. Larson. It’s great fun to be handed a good black and…

Poetry, Last Seen

Last Seen by Jacqueline LaMone, winner of the 2011 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. This cover features an underwater sculpture by Jason deCaires Taylor. I also designed and composited the…

Book Cover Design

Bill Christofferson’s The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson (The University of Wisconsin Press). Phew! That’s a long title. Big titles are fitting for…

Timber!

I especially enjoy regional books about the Midwest and Great Lakes region. These books are personal and part of my own history: Wisconsin is where I live and…

Book Cover Design

Book cover design for A Castle in the Backyard: A Dream of a House in France by Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden, published by The University of Wisconsin…

Book Cover: Guide to Wisconsin Wildlife

I created this book cover illustration by the merging of many photographs.

Historical Photo Restoration: St. Croix RIver

I repaired and colored this photo in photoshop for North Woods River: The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History.

Civil War Book Cover Design

Book jacket design for University of Wisconsin Press.