Offshoots 12 | Reflections
Offshoots 12 | Reflections
The Geneva Writers’ Group
cover + interior design + production
The Geneva Writers’ Group 20th anniversary inspired this edition’s theme of Reflections. The cover design brief has always stipulated an image of a plane tree. After doing more than 20 cover comps and trying to find a way to meet the brief, this design—the very first one I did—seemed the best resolved. Everyone on the editorial team hesitated: “What will Susan think? Can we break with such a long-standing tradition?” We kept coming back to how well this design most conveyed the edition’s theme. I figured out a way to use a plane tree on the back cover. And in the end, Susan Tiberghien, the GWG’s inestimable founder and long-standing director, agreed that this edition called for something new and different.
4-color cover / 6 x 9 in / 170 pages
Photo by Karen McDermott
© Geneva Writers’ Group