Books
12+ years cover design experience for Jones & Bartlett Learning. 1, 2, 4, and 5-color designs for paperback, casebound, kivar, and dust jacket covers as well as book interior templates for out-of-house composition. Award-winning cover designs for the 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2011 Bookbuilders of Boston New England Book Show.
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Essentials of Personal Fitness Training, Fourth Edition Revised
Interior design. As a favor to NASM, one of our sister business units, I revised the design of their fourth edition personal training textbook. The only direction was to modernize it and make it brighter. In production.
Info: interior, 4-color
An Introduction to Web Development Using HTML 5
Cover design. The author wanted a direct reference to the HTML 5 brand. I also wanted to incorporate a reference to a HTML 5-specific feature, so I used the splattered paint as a tie-in to Canvas.
Info: cover, 4-color, paperback
Cloud Computing
Cover design. The typography is light and airy to relate to the seamless nature of the cloud computing concept.
Info: cover, 4-color, paperback
An Introduction to Zoology
Cover and interior book design. The typography choices and bright colors are intended to promote to introductory nature of the content.
Info: cover and text, 4-color, paperback
"There once was a man who played trumpet" and Other Musical Limericks
Freelance book design for The Metropolitan Wind Symphony 40th anniversary. Limericks written by group members and book created for print-on-demand through Blurb.com as a group fundraiser.
Info: book, 4/1-color, paperback
The Virtual Worlds Handbook: How to Use Second Life® and Other 3D Virtual Environments
The authors wanted to use a lot of low-resolution art they had created in Second Life®, but the book covers other online environments. I supplemented the art provided with generic 3D royalty-free art that was restriction-free to use.
Info: cover, 4-color, paperback
An Introduction to Digital Multimedia
I wanted to depict the computer as a tool to bring flat imagery to life through multimedia. The fish is half pixelated as it jumps out of the screen into the foreground of the cover layout.
Info: cover, 4-color, paperback
Foundations of Algorithms, Fourth Edition
Follows the fractal theme of the last edition, but with simpler typography supporting the introductory nature of the book's content and presentation.
Info: cover, 4-color, casebound
7 Summits
The author provided a fantastic photo from one of his climbs. The summit line shown in the goggle reflection in the photo is mirrored in the typography treatment at the top.
Info: cover, 4-color, paperback
Computer Science Illuminated, Fourth Edition
Editions of this title always need to be bright and engaging. The team was won over by this treatment and it received compliments from the lead author as well.
Info: cover, 4-color, casebound
Euclidean and Transformational Geometry
The cover design features an abstract rendering of a problem outlined in the text.
Info: cover, 4-color, casebound
Closer and Closer: Introducing Real Analysis
Magnifying glass imagery used to portray the "closer and closer" of the title.
Info: cover, 4-color, matte finish with spot gloss on glass of magnifying glass and titling, casebound
Applied Data Structures with C++
Architecture is a metaphor for data structures in this cover design.
Info: cover, 4-color, paperback
Pharmacy Practice and The Law, Seventh Edition
A new 2-color design for an upper-level textbook. Composed with Cyan and Blank (Cyan to be replaced on press).
Info: interior, 3-color, paperback
Essential Concepts for Healthy Living, Sixth Edition
A fresh design for a new edition of this popular textbook. The request was for more modern fonts and colors as well as bolder features.
Info: interior, 4-color, paperback
Nutrition, Fourth Edition
Interior redesign of this popular textbook. The previous designs were too busy with too much extraneuous imagery. The team wanted a lighter feel for this edition with more negative space. Brand new feature designs.
Info: interior, 4-color, casebound
Student-Athlete Success
1-color interior design with multiple feature list/table styles.
Info: interior, 1-color, paperback