Featured Projects

Projects of particular note for special features or interesting challenges.
While I love (nearly) all of my books, I confess that some are a little extra special to me—perhaps because of some technical challenge I had to overcome, perhaps because of some special process or workflow that was required. Whatever the unique situation, these projects typify just how far I am willing to go to make a book as perfect as possible.
"The Real-Life Story of Crazy Ralph" by Boppa Harmon, Illustrations by Dmitry Gitelman.
A grandfather’s bedtime stories—now illustrated—of the enduring bond between a family and their adventurous dog.
A sample interior spread of the book is shown with a sweeping red pine, shown under a cover featuring the title “Ishkode: A Story of Fire."
Principles of Anishinaabe land stewardship and Western scientific knowledge are intertwined in this stunningly illustrated and thoughtfully designed children’s story.
The Land Knows The Way by Ricardo Levins Morals, shown open to a chapter page.
A collection of essays and artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales, crafting a unified visual language that reflects the book’s themes of resistance, ecology, and transformation.
The cover of "Little Birdie Babies" featuring two eggs and a cute and fuzzy trumpeter swan. Behind is another copy of the book open to a page showing an egg, baby, and adult blue heron.
Adorable baby birds delight readers as Little Birdie Babies blends playful illustrations with fascinating facts in Heather Boschke’s third book.
Dust jacket covered book lying atop book open to interior spread featuring a red autumn scene and a windswept tree.
Student demand inspired this beautiful and functional art + instructional book on painter Kami Mendlik’s method for paintings that radiate light!
Celebrating a decade of artistic excellence, the tenth anniversary edition of the “Isolation” exhibition breathes new life into Paul Nylander’s captivating narratives.
Featuring Zimmerman's painted crane and loon, the book cover and open interior spread are colorful
Following My Spirit Home is a personal journey of Duluth based artist Sam Zimmerman as he rediscovers his Ojibwe heritage.
"COVID: Book of Days" open revealing a hand written page and black and red image, with additional pages with papyrus and gold shown as well
A meditative response to pandemic isolation, COVID: Book of Days captures fleeting daily expressions through meticulous fine press reproduction of mixed-media collage.
Dark blue front and back cover featuring gold foil, along with an interior page showing an ornate script initial "A."
Creating Fear Less, a book to be illustrated by the reader, we pulled out the stops, with gold foil and white cover printing.
Kura book open to show detail of the sculpture's engraved granite front piece, with the book lying on top of the hardcover with gold foil of the Japanese Kura symbol, and underneath the softcover featuring the same stone.
Kura: Prophetic Messenger is a stunning essay + photo essay of the development and installation of the sculpture from which the book gets its title. Featuring the work of master potter Richard Bresnahan and the St. John's Pottery.
Paul Nylander's fine press book Isolation, with slipcase
Why letterpress print Isolation with hand printed photogravure images? Because it feels good.
Book cover featuring intimate look at St. Anthony waterfall atop an interior view showing the mill fires in vibrant reds and yellows
In this children's book, My Mighty Journey, the only major waterfall on the Mississippi river watches over changes from woolly mammoths to the rise of the Mill City, Minneapolis.

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