Cover design is dif­fi­cult. Many people are involved, some of whom may have con­flict­ing ideas about what a giv­en book is about or who it is for. (Au­thors and sales reps come to mind.) The so­cial, emo­tion­al, and sub­jec­tive na­ture of de­sign is al­ways at play.

Some­times, though, things work out. The au­thor is hap­py; the press is hap­py; and I’m sat­is­fied, tem­po­rar­i­ly, with some­thing I made.

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Fire in the Big House
Mitchel P. Roth, Ohio University Press, 2019

Not Out of Hate
Ma Ma Lay, Ohio University Press, 2019 reissue

The Public and Its Problems
John Dewey, Swallow Press, 2016 reissue

The Extinction of Menai
Chuma Nwokolo, Ohio University Press, 2018

In the House of Wilderness
Charles Dodd White, Swallow Press, 2018

Fire Is Your Water
Jim Minick, Swallow Press, 2017