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 Poetry Book by Gopal Lahiri
We were tasked by Hog Press, an imprint of Culcidae Press® to design the interior and the cover for Gopal Lahiri’s book of poetry, to be released in January 2026. After conferring with the author about the meaning of the title—he was imagining the sting of the wasp as one of those challenges in life […]
New Year’s Letter for Culicidae Press and Its Imprints
We were tasked by Culicidae Press and its imprints to design a New Year’s letter showing of the company’s work during 2025. Overall there were twenty-eight books. Since full covers (verso, spine, and recto) consist of horizontal images, we decided on a 3-column layout on an 8.5 x 11 paper size. This yielded thirteen covers […]
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 Duane Vorhees
Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533 We recently completed the design for a new book of poetry, Memories Linked Like Oases, by Duane Vorhees for Hog Press, and imprint of Culicidae Press. This is Duane Vorhees’ fourth book with Hog Press. Idea In this case the author wished to use a skull on the […]
Poster for International Festival of Women Composers
We recently completed the poster for the 27th International Festival of Women Composers. Over the last two decades we have designed most of these posters, and they are accessible online at the Margaret Zach International Women Composers Library. The poster above emerged out of the desire to celebrate the countries-of-origin for the performers (Australia, France, […]
Book Design for Hurliman Poetry
Currently working on the interior and cover for Dean S. Hurliman’s new book of poetry titled Through Weathered Trees, to be published this Spring through Zanzara Press, and imprint of Culicidae Press. Dean had suggested sage green for the cover and a view up into a clump of trees with birds flying overhead. The result […]
Logo Design for Culicidae Press
We recently completed the design of a new logo for Culicidae Press, one of our major clients. The company was looking to refresh its logo, which was based on a vesica piscis the owner had found in the book Finegans Wake by James Joyce. Rather than try to reference that design we decided to focus […]
Cover Design for Derrick Drisdel’s Keys To Life, Volume 1
We were tasked by Zanzara Press, an imprint of Culicidae Press, to design the interior and cover for Derrick Drisdel’s new book titled The Keys to Life, Volume 1, a catalogue of insights/life experiences (or keys) the author learned initially from his father, and later began to collect during his life to share with the […]
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 […]