Nonfiction, Essay, & Business

Inherently factual, or generally based on experiences and data, need design to help guide the reader…
The most obviously functional of my book design categories, these books are anything but “utilitarian.” Design often becomes an integral part of presenting the information, with the design aesthetic setting the tone of the book project.
This collection of essays, stories, and poems of eleven Native authors combines haunting cover art with every possible writing style.
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 featuring three illustrated women connected via dotted lines to a computer monitor. The book lies on top of another copy open to an interior page.
Creator to Community Builder is a visually appealing and practical guide for business owners interested in building and scaling their businesses through online communities.
If David Sedaris and P.G. Wodehouse had Covid, this is how it might have gone. A Memoir cover design project, with additional marketing elements.
Capturing the essence of thought-provoking research on how AI will change everything.
Unveiling the design story of “Don’t Fear the Sharks,” a blend of strategic aesthetics and practical wisdom.
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!
Both covers of the book and a sample interior spread.
A heartfelt anthology of spiritual insights, poems, and reflections by Justin O’Brien—Swami Jaidev Bharati—offering guidance and wisdom for personal growth and self-discovery.
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.
Voices Rising showing front and back covers, and an interior spread
Creating an anthology of native women writers took careful balance of style and art—with illustrator Tashia Hart's help.
Looking at the interior of Evergreen Authors
An interior redesign of Evergreen Authors makes this both a beautiful and highly useful book guiding authors to market their own books.

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