I am sharing some wall with Mariah Robinson, Jen Graham, Cheryl Dewelt, and Beth Galantha at a Madison, Wisconsin, jazz club on the Northside.
Acrylic, 11 x 14. Shells are fascinating to look at, by their shape, variety, and often iridescence. They are also imbued with meaning. They are associated with fertility…
Acrylic Painting, 7 x 5. A September ritual of biking the Heart of Vilas County Trail near Minocqua took hold a few years ago. Highly recommend riding through…
A philosophy professor, an artist, and their two children leave behind their land-locked lives for the Sea. Printed and distributed with both Amazon KDP and IngramSpark.
A Map showing the mysterious setting of Trempealeau, book one of Trempealeau Stories.
Jacketed hardcover cloth book printed by Bookmobile in Minneapolis. 150 photographs and in French.
In November showed 12 works as part of the curated “Mini” Show at the Art Bar, Milwaukee. All works are required to be 8″ x 8″ or less….
A Kirkus Reviews top 100 Indie published book! Blends local fiction, mystery, and multiverse and apocalyptic science fiction to explain the real Skylab discovery of a massive circular…
Beauty at Short—about Superior, Wisconsin’s own professional baseball player, Dave Bancroft—landed as a #1 new release on Amazon, after being featured in the Milwaukee Journal’s roundup of new…
The seventh and last book in Patricia Skalka’s award-winning mystery series set in Door County, Wisconsin. Published by the University of Wisconsin Press, 2022.
Another installment to the Dave Cubiak Mysteries published by the University of Wisconsin Press
Cover design with original illustration and typesetting for Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Paperback cover design and typesetting for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Nine titles in paperback and ebook with Terra Nostra Press, 2020–2021, printed and distributed through IngramSpark. Cover illustrations by Bonnie Acker.
A google site used to distribute audio book, PDF book, ebook, and other press materials to potential book reviewers.
Published in paperback, both black and color interior editions, and with a color ebook. Distribution and printing by IngramSpark and BookMobile in Minneapolis.
Self-published in association with Life History Services, Madison, Wisconsin. Printed on-demand with BookMobile in Minneapolis.
A summer journal of Evelyn Kinder who travels West by car visiting popular sites of the time as well as family. Includes custom map and postcards of the…
A revised edition for Ben Sidran’s award-winning There Was a Fire. Printed and distributed through Ingram’s LightningSource.
Book six in the Dave Cubiak Mysteries, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Patricia Skalka’s fourth book in her award winning mystery series is forthcoming May 2018.
Scholarly monographs advance important, timely topics yet often have low print runs and small design and production budgets. Here, I used two no-cost author photos, combined with additional…
“For Jeremiah Williams,” painting by Wisconsin artist Andy Fletcher. The edition was published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
New cover for Every Farm Tells a Story by Jerry Apps, published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Cover painting by Andy Fletcher: “Goodland Road,” oil on canvas, 30″…
A classic coming out in a second edition. University of Wisconsin Press. Photography by Daniel M. Seurer
Combing through immense collections, Wisconsin Historical Society Press delivers short accounts of the lives of Wisconsin’s nonconformists. The book will be coming out this winter.
Responsive WordPress site with rotating book reviews on home page. Corran’s new book, Follow the River Home, was published April of 2016 by Arbor Farm Press.
Poster, flyer, postcards, business cards for Corran Harrington’s new book, Follow the River Home, published by Arbor Farm Press. Cover design by Ann Weinstock. Cover photograph by David Muench. Author…
Book 3 of Patricia Skalka’s Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries is due to be published Fall of 2016. “A first rate series.”—Kirkus Reviews
A new cover for the second edition. A tale about the ravages of old age, the weight of the past and bunny rabbits.—Kirkus Reviews
“Skalka’s descriptions of the atmosphere of the villages and spectacular scenery will resonate with readers who have spent time on the Door Peninsula…. [She] plans to continue disturbing…
Book cover design for The News from Lone Rock, to be published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. The book includes stories written by an early Wisconsin journalist…
The winning cover concept for Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
A cover from way back, but memorable. Who knew you could affordably procure for a book cover a Picasso artwork? It worked out!
This is a restoration of a Library of Congress image of a postcard. The photo of this Winnebago (Ho-Chunk is the tribe’s current name) family was taken in…
The second book in the hardboiled mystery series set in Door County, Wisconsin. Due out in Spring 2015. Fantastic reviews for the first book!
I’m taking a chemistry class, which reminds me of this project published a few years ago—a brochure (inside showing here) for Bassam Shakhashiri’s new 5th installment of the Chemical…
Wisconsin Books Catalog. Good books are close. Read well and support your local book publisher!
This book is a seamless blend of regional memoir, travel writing, and travel guide focused on Wisconsin’s Driftless area. The anchor of the book is Lynn Diebel’s journey,…
University of Wisconsin Press paperback reprint with new cover, originally printed in 1950.
The inside 11 x 17 panel for “Rural Reflections: Finnish American Buildings and Landscapes in Michigan’s Copper Country”. Photography by Ryan Holt with Historical Narrative by Arnold R….
Interior book design for author Ned Hayes for Coeur D’Alene Waters. 8.5 x 5.5 and 368 pages.
Performing Brazil, scholarly book design for the University of Wisconsin Press.
Book cover for Wisconsin Historical Society Press. This is a new cover for a Press classic. The cover family photo has been repaired and the tone improved.
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…
Book cover and interior design for Janee Pennington‘s Meeting Eve: A Novel. Launched January 16, 2014.
The Baileys Harbor Bird and Booyah Club: Book cover for a comedic novel about retired life in Door County, Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Press.
Book design for Voodoo Inverso, a Felix Pollak Poetry Prize winner. University of Wisconsin Press.
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 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…
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:…
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…
Cover Art for a film history book. I had a low resolution film still to work with and added stock photography.
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…
Filipino Tapestry: Tagalog Language Through Culture (University of Wisconsin Press). Package includes book cover and CD.
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,…
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!
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
I created this book cover illustration by the merging of many photographs.
I repaired and colored this photo in photoshop for North Woods River: The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History.
