Books

Book design is an art we’ve been practising for a long time at Working Design. As you see in these designs, a small piece of paper makes a marvellous canvas.

  • Project Setting the Standard cover design
  • Client UBC Press
  • Client Since 2004
  • Sector

Setting the Standard is the second book cover we designed for UBC Press on forestry policy and for our colleague Chris Tollefson, a professor in environmental law at UVic. The book deals with certified logging to ensure sustainable harvesting. The cover images illustrate the forest, a logged tree and refined wood.

  • Project The Wealth of Forests cover design
  • Client UBC Press
  • Client Since 2004
  • Sector
  • Project Cover and inside page design
  • Client Fernwood Publishing/Red Publishing
  • Client Since 2006
  • Sector

We’ve had the good luck to do a number of commissioned covers for Red Publishing through our colleague Gary Engler, a seasoned journalist and union activist. Three of the books have been authored by his son Yves and Gary wrote The Great Multicultural North (see below).

  • Project Cover design
  • Client Fernwood Publishing/Red Publishing
  • Client Since 2006
  • Sector

Besides engaging Working Design to design the cover and insides for these two projects, Gary Engler from Red Publishing also hired Vancouver Province cartoonist Bob Krieger to draw a few ‘toons for the Great Multicultural North.

  • Project Cover Designs
  • Client Fernwood Publishing/Red Publishing
  • Client Since 2006
  • Sector

We’ve had a long and fruitful working relationship with PLAN – the Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network. Safe and Secure is their flagship book publication and we’ve been involved with it from the start. It outlines what’s involved in building a lifelong circle of support for people with developmental disabilities and their families. The book has been redesigned and editions have been produced for other provinces and countries.