Utopian Vistas
Utopian Vistas
The University of New Mexico Press
jacket/cover + interior design
The author selected the cover image, whose color palette inspired the rest of the cover design. It needed to refer to the high desert landscape of northern New Mexico without using the stereotypic colors of turquoise, sage, and sand. The second challenge was to run the image at a large size and yet still have room for all the text, of which there is a fair amount! This is still one of my favorite cover designs.
4-color cover
6.13 x 9.25 in / 415 pages / 162 photographs
"Sue brought to UNM Press a fresh eye, an empathy for the work of scholars, and a collaborative attitude toward her colleagues that made her tenure productive and memorable. I could rely on her to be intelligent about a manuscript’s content and curious about its purpose, and to craft graphic solutions that made the resulting book inviting, intelligible, and marketable. She appreciated other people’s talents and contributions as well, cultivating an atmosphere of mutual enrichment and shared learning. It was a joy to have her on my staff there." Emmy Ezzell, Production Manager, University of Oklahoma Press
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