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Young Adult book cover design for A Million Junes by Emily Henry, author of The Love That Split the World. It features a gold silhouette of a girl atop an ethereal black-and-white photo of a waterfall.
Young Adult book cover design for Iceling. The cover is in the style of Saul Bass with cutout silhouettes of a rocket, a boat, and two girls.
Young Adult book cover design for The Love that Split the World by Emily Henry. It features the silhouette of a young woman falling through the night sky, ripping open a colorful mountainscape background.
Young Adult book cover design for Frozen Tides by Morgan Rhodes. It features a cloaked woman releasing a giant fireball from her hand. She stands in front of a medieval-style city.
Young Adult book cover design for Kate Axelrod's The Law of Loving Others.
Young Adult book cover design for End Times by Anna Schumacher. It features silhouetted hordes making their way through a fiery nightscape.
Middle Grade book cover design and custom lettering for I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by New York Times Bestselling Author Josh Lieb. There is an endorsement by Jon Stewart on the cover.
Middle Grade book cover design for Dragons Vs. Drones by Wesley King. It features a mythical dragon flying in the scope of a Drone's HUD.
Middle Grade book cover design and custom lettering for Ratscalibur. The low-angle illustration shows a rat holding a broken spork up against a cityscape.
Young Adult book cover design for A Tale of Two Besties by Sophia Rossi with a foreword by Zooey Deschanel. It features a collage-style image of two teenage girls climbing out of a pool.

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Middle Grade book cover design and custom lettering for Teddycats by Mike Storey. It features a group of whimsical creatures in the trees of a rainforest.i

Services

Book Covers

Art Direction

Lettering


Client

Penguin Random House

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Years

2014–2016

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A collection of Young Adult and Middle Grade books that I worked on during my time with Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House. 

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For some of my less successful (but still close to my heart) book covers, scroll down to the Book Cover Graveyard.

Book Covers

Unused Young Adult book cover design for Don't Fail me Now by Una LaMarche. It features a photograph of a man with his face scratched out.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Don't Fail me Now by Una LaMarche. It features a beat-up yellow toy station wagon.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Don't Fail me Now by Una LaMarche. It features an illustration of a station wagon driving from above with a scribble of black exhaust.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Don't Fail me Now by Una LaMarche. It features a landscape photo of a highway with a plume of black exhaust smoke coming from the back of a yellow station wagon.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Don't Fail me Now by Una LaMarche. It features an overhead view of a beat-up yellow station wagon creating tire tracks that spell out the title.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Don't Fail me Now by Una LaMarche. It features a cutout illustration of a yellow car on a blue background.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana. It features a young woman staring into a portal created by the letter O in "Mirror" and standing on the other side of the portal created by the O in "Khorana.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana. It features a young woman's face appearing in a constellation.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana. It features a silhouette of a woman's face against a blue sky. Her silhouette is made up of a beautiful colorful cosmic scape.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana. It features a series of interwoven geometric circles creating a pattern.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana. It features a young woman staring against a dark night sky as the title words recede and blur away.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana. It features two versions of the title overlapping against a blue night sky.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for The Law of Loving Others by Kate Axelrod. It features a collage-style image of a flame created from various family photographs and abstract medical papers.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for The Law of Loving Others by Kate Axelrod. It features a distorted black-and-white image of a young woman in lingerie.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for The Law of Loving Others by Kate Axelrod. It features medical illustrations of a brain and a heart against an abstract background.
Unused Young Adult book cover and custom script lettering design for The Law of Loving Others by Kate Axelrod. It features the title made in what appears to be a white powdery substance.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for The Law of Loving Others by Kate Axelrod. It features a collage of a Victorian-era child holding a kitten set over a medical diagram of a brain with trauma.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Iceling by Sasha Stephenson. It features a ring of receding ice layers with a young woman's silhouette at the center.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Enemy of the Realm by Wesley King. It features a dragon in the sights of a drone.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Rebel War, a Dragons Vs. Drones Novel by by Wesley King. It features a red mechanical-style dragon's eye with the reflection of an incoming drone.
Unused Middle Grade book cover design for Bobby Blobson by Kuhlman illustrated by Merrill Rainey. It features a smiling young boy made of a green jelly-like substance standing in his school hallway surrounded by two human friends.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for The Love that Split the World by Emily Henry. It features a dreamy mountainscape layered with images of a night sky.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for The Love that Split the World by Emily Henry. It features overlapping graphic shapes including a young couple kissing.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for The Love that Split the World by Emily Henry. It features alternating panels of a young couple kissing, one in the real world and one made up of stars in the night sky.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for A Million Junes by Emily Henry. It features an ethereal illustration of a waterfall with colorful orbs of light overlaid.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for The Love that Split the World by Emily Henry. It features a cutout image of a young woman against a mountainscape. Her features are obscured by many circular cutouts revealing the title.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for The Love that Split the World by Emily Henry. It features a silhouette of a young woman falling against an inverted background of a beautiful mountain scape.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for A Million Junes by Emily Henry. It features a spooky, atmospheric photo of a woman's soul separated from her body laid over a photo of a forest at night.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for A Million Junes by Emily Henry. It features an ethereal photo of a young woman in a field.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for A Million Junes by Emily Henry. It features an illustration of a colorful meteor shower over a waterfall.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Iceling by Sasha Stephenson. It features a cutout-style illustration of a hand emerging from egg-like pod at the center of a jumble of vines.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Iceling by Sasha Stephenson. It features a cutout-style illustration of a baby embryo at the center of many layers of ice, floating in a sea of geometric ice sheets.
Unused Young Adult book cover design for Iceling by Sasha Stephenson. It features an embyro inside of a translucent blue egg at the center of a frozen ice background.

More Work 👇

Animation of many gig poster designs.

Marketing | Creative Direction
South By Southwest Loop

Emoji monkey animation that flickers with X’s over the eyes.

Marketing | Creative Direction
The Dayton's Monkeys

Looping animation of a bus in Chicago driving back and forth

Branding | Illustration
The Fleet

POV of various graphics of Rivere cycling in the style of a Viewmaster toy.

Marketing | Branding | Creative Direction
Rivere of River North

An exterior image of 120 Broadway in Manhattan.

Branding | Lettering | Real Estate
120 Broadway Revival

A back-and-forth animation of an office building rendering transitioning from night to day.

Branding | Marketing | Creative Direction
LINK Creative Campaign

A flickering neon sign that says "It's Boogie Time."

Lettering | Neon | Beer
It's Boogie Time

A custom modular piece of letter that says "Succesfful Failures" flickering against a black background.

Lettering | Experimental
Successful Failures

An abstract, 3D custom piece of lettering featuring the letter M.

Experimental | 3D | Lettering
36 Days of Type

An animation featuring rejected book cover designs, each with a red letter X over it.

Collection
Book Covers

A bunch of Little Creeps stickers.

Experimental | 3D | Illustration
Little Creeps

A bunch hands reaching into a Union Squared pizza box and taking every slice.

Branding | Food & Bev

Union Squared

An illustrated bagel mascot appears in front of the word "Bagels" repeating.

Branding | Food & Bev
Schoolyard Bagels

Multiple pencil sketch iterations of the word "Lettering" against a black background.

Collection
Type & Lettering

Custom logo lettering sketches for Midwest Nice, a Chicago-based art and gift shop.

Collection
Logos & Logotypes

A hand writing "No Scrubs" in copperplate-style calligraphy

Personal Project
Lowbrow Calligraphy

Custom illustrations for Canna Remedies dispensary showing cannabis products moving against a purple background.

Branding | Illustration | Cannabis
Canna Remedies

Frank & Furter's Handcrafted Hot Dogs mascots chasing one another.

Branding | Illustration | Food & Bev
Frank & Furter's

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