For this poetry cover I wanted the rather prosaic image of laundry on a clothesline to take on another dimension - a sail on the horizon.

Summer office with bovine chorus - every designer should have one.

Full cover on this one.

From the vault

In this work of literary criticism the author traces the evolution of Mavis Gallant’s visually evocative style through five decades of her short fictional works. The author contends that “Gallant envisages and renders her fictional world with the techniques analogous to those of visual artists”.

Proposed logo

Just doing some archiving – two unused sketches for cover work done over the last year.

The one above was for a thriller set in a meat packing plant - Sopranos meets Animal House.

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Another thriller. This one set in a prison situated in an old Soviet era submarine

Bike month

The summer office

Awarded to my Great Grandfather “For Cleanest Buildings on a Dairy Farm”

This fall catalogue just went to press. They will create a billboard effect with the covers to create a backdrop at sales conferences - below.

I design covers for presses from pretty much all over the place, and a few that are located in Montréal - all of them english language. Even though I had worked in french for many clients during my 10 years at Cossette Communications in Montréal, french publishing clients in Québec remained elusive. When a french publishing house in Montréal recently asked me to design a logo for their new fiction imprint and to do their cover designs, I leapt at the chance. Below are a sample cover and spine.

A Creative Director at Cossette, claimed that the ultimate test for whether a logo works is how good it looks on a t-shirt. 

This is the final cover for this one with some earlier sketches. It was a tricky one because the novel is based on real people and real events - strife between a mother and a daughter during and after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It really required a photographic approach and I must have looked at hundreds of stock photos to find ones that didn’t look like stock photos but real people - not easy.

Four Elephants Press logo

I have done logos for two new press imprints in the last 2 weeks. Here is the most recent one. The other  I will post next week.