Book Cover Design

I have always enjoyed reading and browsing books, and I have a large library. I love the creative challenge of designing book covers. Here are a few of my coursework favorites. Scroll to see project notes.

↑ This design was created from this butterfly photograph.
I like to play with photographs and use them as the basis for new vector works.

↑ Another cover design idea based on a photograph.
Both this photo and the previous one are taken from my book, Getting Back to Nature.

↑ Employing simple shapes and bright, playful colors for a hypothetical children's book.

↑ Line-based cover art is central to this design for a book on sparkline theorist Edward Tufte.
The fleshtone color band encroaching on the title symbolizes humanity in this design for a book on global warming. ↓