Five books, four authors, and direct access to every one of them.
Chalice Press · Freelance, designer and creative director
Book cover design · Author consultation · Typography · Illustration and collage · Print-ready file preparation
THE CHALLENGE
Chalice Press publishes books on faith and social justice. Five books, four authors, and each cover had to carry what that author meant by their own book.
WHAT I DID
Worked with the authors directly.
Chalice gave me full access to each author, so the brief came from the person who wrote the book. I consulted with them on the image and the emotion they wanted the cover to carry, and we went through several iterations before landing on the final.
Designed a sequel to relate to a book I had already designed.
Ferguson & Faith came first. Faith Following Ferguson is the follow-up by the same author, five years on, and it had to read as connected without repeating the first one. The Arch and raised hands carry over; everything else is rebuilt.
Handed over print-ready files.
Chalice printed from there. The cover artwork is credited to me on the publisher’s site and on retail listings.
The author knows the book better than I do, so most of the work was listening. The rest was making the case when the picture in their head would not work on a shelf, and changing my mind when they were right.
And the work that is mine rather than a client’s: graphite portraits.
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