Just finished this series of Michael Collins novels for Open Road Media. They’re eBook covers, but I pretended that I was working with spot metallic pantones for the top bands. This is my third series for the client, and I love how I’m forced to push myself to play with new type and colours. Finding just the right detective story tropes was a ball, too. How could I not have fun with titles like Shadow of the Tiger, The Brass Rainbow and Night of the Toads?

The Lolita Cover Project, curated by John Bertram, is a fascinating exercise. Dozens of stellar book designers have been approached for their takes on this important 20th century novel. I’m thrilled to be in such good company (see the link for the list of participating designers!)

I thought the image of a cage was fitting, in that Lolita has become trapped in her relationship with Humbert Humbert, but he is equally trapped by his attraction to, as he calls them, nymphets (hence the white cage, to represent their perceived innocence). The bird is ambiguously both inside and outside the cage. The images are from one of my favourite resources for mocking up illustrated covers, vectorstock.com.