Speculative Book Design

Skills

book design
typesetting

tools

indesign
illustrator
photoshop

year

2024

Shown here are a few various mechanicals and covers I’ve designed recently. After doing my 100 Book Covers project back in 2022, I wanted to revisit making covers for fun. This page will continue to be updated as I design more books.

The front covers for Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth come from my 100 Book Covers project. I recently decided to build out full mechanicals for them, which was so much fun.

For Red Island House, I made three different versions. It’s always a fun challenge to take the same project in multiple directions.
*Cover design by Tristan Offit; mechanical design by me

Continuing the thread of multiple directions for the same book, I designed a bunch of different covers for Mother Winter, in all different styles. Here are some of my favorites.

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