Final Version of Geertje Suhr’s Learning About Love
We just finished the book design for Geertje Suhr’s second book, the novel Learning About Love, published by Culicidae Press. The cover is based on a painting owned by the author of the some fishermen on the Thuner Lake in Switzerland. In the background one can see the Niesen mountain. The protagonist of the novel […]
TRN Logo for Remastered
As part of the book design for Hallie Baur’s new Culicidae Press book Remastered, we were also tasked with developing a new logo for the Time Regulatory Network which is, according to the author, an “Agency of scientists, health care professionals, investors, system developers, lobbyists, and other affiliates who manage the logistics of Time Travel.” […]
Book Design for Remastered
We just completed the book design for author Hallie Baur’s second historic fiction book titled Remastered. The client was Culicidae Press, and the book will be released on 31 January 2023. In the book a record store plays an important role, as does time travel between different decades of the twentieth century, so the author […]
Design of Poetry Book for Mohammad Tavallaei
Culicidae Press asked us to design the new poetry book by Mohammad Tavallaei titled Poems as Short as Life. The book will be bilingual book (English and Persian) and contains about 600 poems. One of the challenges will be the arrangement of the poems on the book’s interior. The other is the cover design: how […]
Design for New Edition of Phases
polytekton was hired to design the second edition of Diana Brantley’s book of poetry titled Phases, to be published in May 2022. We also designed the first edition, published originally in 2011 via Culicidae Press. Below are three different versions. The author already made her choice (final version above). Unlike the first edition, we simplified […]
Cover Design for Poetry Book by Diana Brantley
We are currently finalizing the design of a book cover for author Diana Brantley’s latest poetry book We Are The Sum of Tiny Spaces which will be published during the summer of 2022 by Culicidae Press. polytekton has designed several versions of the cover, and at this point we are close to have the author […]
New Cover Design for Geertje Suhr’s The German Exchange Student
We are currently working on the design for Geertje Suhr’s latest translation of an originally German novel (Mephisto ist nicht tot) into English. The book, titled The German Exchange Student: A Love Story will be published in the summer of 2022. At this point the cover has been approved by the author and polytekton is […]
Book Design for Angels in the Snow
We just completed the design of the late Doug Larche’s book Angels in the Snow, a novelization of the Berlin Wall musical drama of the same name. We were contacted by Doug last February to take on the design of Angels in the Snow, and by the end of August 2021 the book was ready […]
Book Cover for Arvid Osterberg’s ‘We All Fall Down’
Design for Merritt-Gordon and Grosscup Book
We’re almost finished with the cover design and interior layout for Laverne Merritt-Gordon and Beau Grosscup’s book Tell Them What You Want, an inspirational coming of age story of an African-American girl (Bernie) growing up amidst the immense local and national social turmoil of the 1950s to mid 1980s. Each chapter is fronted by a photograph and […]