A pair of prospective book cover designs for Jacob Milnestein’s A Love Amongst Strangers. The magpie is central to the story and needed to be central to the cover. We started with an abstract magpie shape in simple vector as inspired by Saul Bass. We decided that it didn’t convey the mood well enough, so we switched gears to a Varvara Stepanova feel. Using Russian Constructivist colors and shapes, the cover was finally desperate enough. We layered vector on top of grainy photography of hands and London to continue the theme and topped it with the book title inside a shape reminiscent of “Hi, My Name is” tags to highlight “Strangers.”

Necrophilia: Brain-soiled Love Letters was conceptualised and designed as a cover for a zombie anthology for Capture Press. Image is comprised of several individual images manipulated together to give a disjointed or “undead” feel. Wild elements such as chatter-teeth, green wigs, robot arm and firearm were used to seem outlandish as to describe the genre. Title was decided upon to be revolting, and at the same time evocative. Anchored with a light pink and soft, script font.

writer H.H. Neville needed help designing a cover and concept for a short-story collection. He described a secret society with names like Shakespeare and Longfellow called the Censors. Their job was to eliminate any person or piece of information that would lead to human evolution, that would make us like…them. We came to the conclusion that a meta approach (using the book title as part of the universe with the pages) would be best, claiming the book was untitled. The subtitle A Democracy of Penguins was later added for searchable reasons, but even, then, we chose something nonsensical, pointless. The cover itself is composed of several public domain images with things blacked out, stricken or otherwise censored. Even the pull quote was censored, attributed to “Someone.”