A small selection of the book covers I’ve designed and illustrated over the years for long term publishing clients. Work on a cover usually starts with research and concepts, followed by art direction/design/illustration, through to preparing the final cover for specialised print production.
These titles are available in Wordsworth bookstores, or online.
Book sleeve design – Non fiction title dealing with corruption and it’s effects on South Africa’s failing electricity grid.
Small Things is a book sleeve design for award winning author Nthikeng Mohlele. The cover image comes from a passage in the book.
A book sleeve design for a fiction title dealing with domestic violence
A book sleeve design for an auto-biographical coming-of-age story set in a Muslim community in Salt River, Cape Town, during the Apartheid years.
A release of early SACP and uMkhonto we Sizwe member, Michael Harmel’s political sci-fi title written in the 1950's.
A book sleeve design for award winning author Nthikeng Mohlele
Book sleeve illustration and design for noir styled title, taking inspiration from retro pulp cover designs.
“Scatterlings” by Rešoketšwe Manenzhe was the overall winner of five local fiction awards and received a stellar review from The New York Times in 2022. It has been published in several countries. The swan on my book cover design for Jacana Media represents the main character in the book and their character arc.
Book cover design for non-fiction title dealing with the overlooked social history of the Kruger National Park.
First published in 2017, the year of the 40th anniversary of Steve Biko’s murder by the apartheid regime, The Black Consciousness Reader has been revised and updated as an essential collection of history, interviews and opinions about the philosophy.
Book sleeve design and illustration for Niq Mhlongo’s collection of short stories about Johannesburg and the lives of it’s inhabitants.