Book Cover for Heartbreak to Heartland
We were tasked by Hog Press to design the cover for a book by author Jim Burns (Jacksonville, Florida) titled Heartbreak to Heartland: Children of the Orphan Train, which will be published in September of 2026. The narrative starts in 1911 when a mother of two children dies during the Triangle Waist Shirt Factory fire […]
Book Design for James T. Colbert
No, not that Colbert. This is James T. Colbert who started his academic career in 1985 at Colorado State University and then taught at Iowa State University for 33 years. We designed the book and the cover for In Your Nature, a reflective, nature-focused memoir in the tradition of Aldo Leopold, E.O. Wilson, and Annie […]
Book Design for Fern Kupfer’s Latest Book
Fern Kupfer’s latest book, Strong Women in Chicago, was released today at Culicidae Press. We designed the cover and the interior during the last few weeks. The cover shows a view of the Chicago skyline from west of the Loop, where SWIC, the Strong Women in Chicago gym is located. We generated the skyline issue […]
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 titled 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 […]
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 […]