Illustrated book design for children's picture books and adult lifestye and non-fiction
Speculative Book Cover
Inspired by a visit to the famed scientist’s home laboratory — his greenhouse in Downe, England — I created this portrait and book cover to explore the story behind Charles Darwin’s humble home tinkering and how it continues to influence our understanding of the natural world today.
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by Anne Charnock / Goldsmiths Press
Paperback, 252pp.
GoldSF series
Alston Moor is work of literary eco-fiction, interweaving contemporary and historical narratives to explore humanity’s relationship with landscape and the overwhelming anxieties faced in each era.
In an epic novel set on the Pennine Moors, Elizabeth abandons avalanche science to restore desolate peatlands, trekking in the footsteps of Isabel who, five centuries earlier, herds her cattle to remote summering grounds. They grapple with the overwhelming crises of their eras – by turn, the tumult of the Protestant Reformation and the ecological catastrophe of climate change.
Cover illustration Heather Ryerson
Series design Kir
Series Gold SF
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by M. Darusha Wehm / Goldsmiths Press
Paperback, 280pp.
GoldSF series
The Department Of What It (Really) Means To Be Human is an optimistic sci-fi novel set in post-capitalist, post-climate change Aotearoa New Zealand.
Investigator Em is tracking down Gen Ecks, a notable installation artist who’s fallen off the map. Gen is found under the influence of Moneta, a drug that lets users experience memories as if they were real. But the drug isn’t working as expected. Gen’s not just going down memory lane, she’s completely lost, unable to tell past from present. She may not be the only one.
Em must help Gen and expose Moneta’s dangers; the world cannot be truly changed until the past is faced head on.
Cover illustration Heather Ryerson
Series design Kir
Series Gold SF
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by Anne Pasek and the Low-Carbon Research Group / Goldsmiths Press
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by Margaretha Haughwout and Oliver Kellhammer / Goldsmiths Press
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by Oriana Fox / Goldsmiths Press
Paperback
Full Disclosure investigates the lived, therapeutic ramifications of self-exposure in the work ofcontemporary, Anglo-American intersectional feminist performance artists whose work entails shame-defiance toward political critique.
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Goldsmiths Press / MIT Press
Paperback, 248pp.
Goldsmith Press’s PERC series seeks to refresh political economy, in the original sense of the term, as a pluralist and critical approach to the study of capitalism. In doing so it challenges the sense of economics as a discipline, separate from the other social sciences, aiming instead to combine economic knowledge with various other disciplinary approaches.
The cover design uses simple shapes motifs to express the changing opinions of a population in response to the emotional pull of party leaders.
Cover design Heather Ryerson
Publishing Consultant Susan Kelly
Series Editor William Davies
Series PERC Papers
Editors Ben Anderson and Anna J. Secor
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Speculative Book Cover
A contemporary portrait of the American farmer, environmental activist and essayist Wendell Berry for a speculative cover of The World-Ending Fire, the essential collection of his most-read work.
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by Atau Tanaka
Goldsmiths Press / MIT Press
Paperback
Body Music looks at visceral engagement of the body in musical performance, and thinks about how technological mediation can foster, or might break, forms of audience empathy.
The artist uses muscle sensors that respond to movement in the body to create his sonic pieces. The cover draws on the muscle layers, the movement of blood and the heightened emotion one experiences when playing or listening to music.
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