For the third book in Roy Innes’ mystery series, I etched the cover image and title into an inked board using various pointy objects:
The interior chapter numbers are also carved by hand, based on FF Quadraat by Fred Smeijers.
I designed the last installment in 2007 using the same illustration technique. The setting is important in both books, so I found a way to describe two contrasting environments in a similar visual rhetoric: Downtown Vancouver and the cattle ranching district of West Caribou, British Columbia.