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Time for a change, again.

Around this time last year, I made the decision to make a go of being a full time book designer. I had been running a boutique graphic design studio for ten years, and it was time to do something...

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Bad Animals Comps

These are rejected concepts for an honest account of a father’s relationship with his autistic son. The first image is of my stepson: in the book, the son is described as being remarkably engaged for...

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Play Clay

Last year before closing shop at Black Eye Design and going solo, we put together a self-promo that I am still proud of. The idea came to me while making some homemade Play Doh for my then three year...

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A Canadian Book Designer in New York

After telling myself month after month that I needed to go to New York, and say hello to a few art directors, last week I finally made it. I just couldn’t pass up the AIGA Small Talk presented by UK...

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How Wired Works

It’s been years I’ve read an issue of Wired cover to cover, but with the release of the iPad app, the time had come to revisit an old favourite. From the point of view of a print designer, with years...

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The Internet Send Me This Cake

Designer and Typographer Jessica Hische created The Internet Sends Me Cake as a fun quid pro quo — people send her cake, she links to their site. Author Sarah Selecky recently sent in a copy of her...

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An Honour Just to be Associated

I got an email last week from Thomas Allen publishers happily letting me know that three of the books I’d designed covers for have been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize — Sarah Selecky’s...

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The Lolita Cover Project

The Lolita Cover Project, curated by John Bertram, is a fascinating exercise. Dozens of stellar book designers have been approached for their takes on this important 20th century novel. I’m thrilled...

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Hard Boiled

Just finished this series of Michael Collins novels for Open Road Media. They’re eBook covers, but I pretended that I was working with spot metallic pantones for the top bands. This is my third series...

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