A Year of Projects: WHAT IS VISIBLE

Next up, in my Year of Projects series is a book cover design for What is Visible by Kimberly Elkins. This is a novelization of Laura Bridgman's story, a blind, deaf woman who was famous throughout the world fifty years prior to Helen Keller. I art directed and designed this project. The illustration is an assemblage piece by Polly Becker.  This is one of my favorites for the year. It was an honor to work with Polly and the story was a wonderful read. I highly recommend it.  

A Year in Projects: SHADOWDANCE

Kristen Callihan’s Darkest London Series is one of my favorites to work on. It’s a sexy, paranormal, steam punk romance. The fourth book in the series, Shadowdance, was really a delight from start to finish. The outfits were custom designed with a costumer. The models were perfect for the characters. The photo illustrator did an amazing job pulling the whole thing together. I feel giddy every time I look at it.

I was the art director and designer. Gene Mollica was the photo-illustrator. The costume was created by Time Travel Outfitters. Ron Zinn created the hand drawn lettering for the title.

Here is the rest of Callihan’s Darkest London series that I art directed and designed.

A Year in Projects: LAURA LONDON

For the rest of Laura London’s classic, historical, backlist titles the editors and I decided to take the look in a completely different direction. I used photographs instead of illustrations and created a new layout. 

Here are the new eBook covers for A Heart Too Proud, The Bad Baron's Daughter, Gypsy Heiress, Love's a Stage and Moonlight Mist.

A Year in Projects: THE WINDFLOWER

Third on the list is some romance! Grand Central Publishing's Forever imprint, is re-releasing several of Laura London’s classic romance novels in eBook format. Her most famous novel however, The Windflower, is being released in both print and eBook formats. We decided to recreate the original 1980’s cover for today’s audience. The result is gorgeous! 

 I was the art director on the project. Alan Ayers created the beautiful illustration. Iskra created the custom lettering.

A Year of Projects: ICE COLD

I did not post much on my blog in 2013, but it was certainly a busy year, full of fun and interesting projects. I decided to share a few of my favorites over the next few days to kick off the 2014.

First up, we have a piece I both designed and illustrated. It is a book cover for Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War. The design is based on Soviet war posters. The art was created in illustrator. 

Australian Romance Award Finalist!

A book cover I art directed with illustrator Gene Mollica is up for an award in Australian Romance Readers Association.

The book is Firelight by Kristen Callihan, is fantasy, historical novel that takes place in Victorian England and the first book in The Darkest London series. I am currently working on the next upcoming cover.

Mythology

Edith Hamilton's Mythology is being reissued this upcoming January as an oversized, mass market edition. I got to not only design the cover but use one of my own drawings. This is a big first for me, so needless to say, I am so ridiculously happy and get giddy every time I think about it. And what an honor it was to work on this particular book! European mythology has not only been a huge influence on my art and design, but also my life in general and Edith Hamilton is such an important figure in the field.

Below is the cover design, the art by itself and the original sketch:

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Cover art and design Christine Foltzer
Lettering by Lauren Sheldon/Parliament of Owls