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The spring Overland Journal cover

I’ve been saving this image for years, just waiting for the right Overland Journal to come along. The focus of the spring issue is Council Bluffs, Iowa, the site of the upcoming annual conference, but none of the articles specifically … Continue reading

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Catching up

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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Happy feedback on a cover

From the editor of Overland Journal, on the winter 2015 issue: The cover is totally stunning! Here’s the caption on the image: Star Peak, at 9,863 feet, is the highest peak in the Humboldt Range in Pershing County, north-central Nevada. … Continue reading

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First true ebooks

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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Color!

A new book for the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library has just arrived! This one is special because it’s printed in full color. I often do color covers and dust jackets, but color text is often very expensive, and even doing … Continue reading

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Two cover designs

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 different kind of book

Last month, I designed a board book for my son, who is seventeen months old. Since we do not live near family, I put lots of photos of his aunts, uncles, cousins, grandmas, and grandpas so that he might recognize … Continue reading

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Grrrrr

The winter issue of Overland Journal is at press! One of the articles, “A New Eldorado in California, 1849,” is a chapter from a book that I worked on last year. California Through Russian Eyes, 1806–1848, compiled, translated, and edited … Continue reading

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Cover detail

The Fall issue of Overland Journal is at the printer and will go out to OCTA members the week after Christmas. Bob Clark has retired as the editor–the first time since 2002 that I have not been working for him … Continue reading

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A little twist on the cover

Inspired by the covers of women’s magazines, I let the subject of the cover illustration take center stage, blocking out part of the masthead. It’s a glorious image!

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