Category Archives: books

Catching up

Posted on 30 December 2016 by ariane

Yikes! I can’t believe it’s been so long since I last updated. Here are few things I’ve been working on. I continue to be proud of the new design for Overland Journal—it even inspired another quarterly to take on a … Continue reading →

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First true ebooks

Posted on 28 January 2015 by ariane

Here are the covers of a few ebooks on Amazon that I designed. Ebooks made for the Kindle are not what I usually do–they lose almost all of the design work and polishing that I do in a print book–but … Continue reading →

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Two cover designs

Posted on 8 April 2014 by ariane

I just finished working on a fun little book, Anodynes and Nostrums: A Century of Patent Medicines for Infants and Children. I usually only work with an image chosen by the author, so the potential for doing something different was … Continue reading →

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A good review

Posted on 3 January 2013 by ariane

A past Capital A project, John Hutchins’s Diggers, Constables, and Bushrangers, got a good review from the Journal of Australasian Mining History (vol. 10, 2012): Hutchins’ book has the added value of clearly placing New Zealand as a small but … Continue reading →

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New Upton book compiles Little Big Horn literary gems

Posted on 31 October 2012 by Jonna

Capital A recently worked on the design and production of the latest Upton & Sons book. Richard Upton compiled Custer Catastrophe at the Little Big Horn, 1876 from nine chapters that were originally published in smaller forms, often not with … Continue reading →

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Gold in exchange for steel

Posted on 3 May 2012 by Jonna

Excitement reigns in the quaint office of Capital A this morning. Firearms of the Fur Trade: The Encyclopedia of Trade Goods, Vol. 1, a book we worked on for an extended period of time, won Gold for the 2012 Independent … Continue reading →

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We work behind the scenes.

Posted on 13 February 2012 by ariane

I was surprised and delighted to see a mention of one of my projects in the latest issue of the University of Montana’s alumni magazine. (I graduated from UM in 2001.) An Archaeology of Desperation: Exploring the Donner Party’s Alder … Continue reading →

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An afternoon of history with a Spanish professor

Posted on 2 February 2012 by Jonna

As she answered the phone, all that could be heard was a dog barking, followed by a breathless “hello?” Laughing, she apologized as she took care of the dog and returned to the call, lively in every word and excited … Continue reading →

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A Different Era

Posted on 24 January 2012 by ariane

Most of the books that we work on here at Capital A cover the history of the exploration and development of the western United States from about 1830 to about 1880–the Oregon-California Trail, the Battle of the Little Bighorn and … Continue reading →

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Beautiful books

Posted on 6 December 2011 by ariane

Dominic Pulera, a former client (I designed his book Green, White and Red: The Italian-American Success Story a couple of years ago*), sent me a New York Times article, “Selling Books by Their Gilded Covers,” by Julie Bosman, this week. … Continue reading →

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