For several years I designed books, most cover-to-cover, as well as some cd packaging, and ephemera for museums. Here’s a sampling of print works.
Pit’s Letter [above], an illustration-driven anti-vivisection story is absolutely heartbreaking. Sue Coe was one of my favorite authors to work with: she was unremittingly upbeat, genuine, generous. And unafraid to confront very ugly issues head-on. / Cover-to-cover book design
Elizabeth Heyert’s photographs are extraordinary and the product of a two-part process: contemporary nudes she photographed sleeping in her studio subsequently projected large-scale against ruins in Greece and re-shot. / Cover-to-cover book design
Joyce Kosloff’s meticulous cartographic collages of wars’ battlefields combine a wealth of historic source material along with her son’s childhood drawings. These are stunningly beautiful renderings of the unfortunately ever-present human discord. Reproducing her work at full scale resulted in a book which, when opened, measures almost 36 inches wide. / Cover-to-cover book design
In A Convergence of Birds notable writers created original fiction and poetry for specific works by Joseph Cornell. Given the dimensionality of these works, I added an interactive element and chose to tip in the imagery. / Cover-to-cover book design
Here’s some visually confrontational CD packaging for Erik Belgum and Eric Lyon’s opera The Audit, the second installment of their “Retirement Fund” series. I loved this project. Complete freedom for typographic expression of the libretto as long as I kept production costs waaaaay down.
For one lovely year I did freelance design work for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (a fabulous museum of contemporary art and my second home when I lived in Minnesota). My focus was mostly on materials for their monthly kids’ programming: 2-color, set trim size, open design brief. I deeply miss the Walker … some of my favorite projects and people ever.
My husband and I worked together on this project and survived He edited, I designed. And designed. And designed. With a full teaching load and a toddler. The writing is terrific: hand-picked gems from 20 years of SPIN Magazine. And there are are some pretty nice spreads here, too. But like most crazy short time frame projects, I want to go back and keep working on it. / Cover-to-cover book design
This is (my alma mater) Cranbrook Academy of Art’s alumni magazine. I designed it as a first year grad student in the 2D program. Two colors. Large format. I shot all the images. So much fun. Do you know all the things you can do with two colors of ink?
An early (and award-winning) book cover heavily influenced by all the 2-color work I’d been doing for museums and non-profits. But it suited the content and I was lucky to work with such an evocative cover image, shot back in the day by Peter Beard.
A book written by women who are both sex workers and academics, the cover image came from a photographer who worked for Penthouse Magazine. I used a grainy xerox copy as my original art. I’ll leave it up to your imagination to consider what might possibly be lurking behind the title. Even though it’s a design no-no I like colors that vibrate. Her hair practically shimmers.
I’ve designed several cookbooks. This was my first: Italian food as cooked by Sephardic (non-European) Jews. Each photo was a gorgeous, gorgeous still-life. Haven’t cooked the food though the well-known in the cookbook universe author, Joyce Goldstein, did make a lovely lunch for me while we worked on the project. This is well before the proliferation of the food blog phenomenon. / Cover-to-cover book design
