The Norwegian-American Center here in Madison asked me to help them make a new version of a book of woodcuts by a local artist, Olive Jensen Nordby. For most of the book I just recreated the existing layout as digital files that could be sent to an offset printer. But for the dust jacket they… Continue reading Book Cover for Olive Jensen Nordby
Category: Book Design
Roy Chapman Andrews
This was a really fun cover to do. Richard Quinney wanted to publish a paperback version of a book we did for Borderland Books a few years ago. He also wanted to jazz up the look of this version and thought we could use an illustration Steve Chappell had created for the hard cover, but… Continue reading Roy Chapman Andrews
A Farm in Wisconsin
This book is the story of Richard Quinney's family from the time they settled on a farm near Delavan, Wisconsin, several generations ago. Richard decided to do the whole book in full color in order to reproduce the various beautiful tones of the photos of his ancestors. To that we added a color intro page… Continue reading A Farm in Wisconsin
Ox Herding in Wisconsin
This is the latest book from Borderland Books, written by Richard Quinney. The design is a collaboration between Richard’s ideas and my implementation of those ideas in a book layout. The entire book, including the cover, was printed digitally at Worzalla Printing in Stevens Point. The book was published as a paperback because at the… Continue reading Ox Herding in Wisconsin
Ken Crocker Artist 