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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.

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

Clients

Penguin Random House

Independent

Years

2014–2016
2024

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

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

Book Covers

💀 Killed Book Covers 💀

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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

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

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.

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