Missive: The New Epistolarian

Covers for Imaginary Books: Missive: The New Epistolarian (A Journal).

A cover for an imaginary periodical. I did the sketch as a quick gesture exercise. I would have really liked to read this issue. The teaser line reads: In This Issue: The beginning of Time  |  1000 Journals  |  Why Mornings are Better  |  The Post Box at the End of the World.

Lost Pages of the Kama Sutra

Covers for Imaginary Books: Lost Pages of the Kama Sutra.

Book cover for an imaginary title. We are always loosing something - the libraries at Alexandria, the family photographs. Why not pages from the Kama Sutra?

Black Irish

Covers for Imaginary Books: Black Irish.

Cover design for a book that was never written. I started with a concept for this one - my own (possible) ancestry. Some of the Irish have swarthy skin, tan easily in summer and have dark hair and brown eyes. They are known as the "Black Irish" and are generally supposed to be descended from survivors of the Spanish Armada which was wrecked along the Irish coast in 1588. It seemed a good title for a historic fiction, a family history, or a memoir.

Karma Thief

Covers for imaginary books: Karma Thief.

I am designing book covers for imaginary titles. I've always loved book design and if I ever have a ticklish design problem I can often solve it by considering the brief to be for a cover rather than for something else. I was reading a lot of Haruki Murakami and Kenzaburō Ōe at the time. I got the title from mishearing some song lyrics. I still really like the title and maybe one day, if I write a novel, I'll use it.