Book cover for Harper Collins.

Art direction: Milan Bozic

Design and illustration: Ross MacDonald

Handset 19th century wood and metal type, printed letterpress, with illustration.

Cover for a science fiction book. Tor books.

Art direction: Irene Gallo

Design and illustration: Ross MacDonald

Self promotion.

Hand set 19th century wood and metal type, printed letterpress, with a 2-color linocut.

This piece has had a long life.

In the early 1990s, I was asked by the MTA to propose a design for a tile mural for the 42nd Street station. I'm still waiting to hear back...

So I decided to print it letterpress as a self promo broadside in the late 90s.

Then in 2012 I was asked to do an illustration for a New York Times Op Ed piece about re-instating the draft. Finally, this image's time had come!

Invitation and poster for a strongman event in Ohio.

Handset wood and metal type, printed letterpress. The image is a copper electro cut, one of several from a collection.

I designed and printed this in trade for a 100 pound Atlas stone.

Self promotion, of the sort designed to drive away the paying clients.

Handset 19th century wood and metal type, printed letterpress in 3 colors

This was produced as a poster for an independent movie, starring Clancy Brown, and written and produced by Randall WIlkins. It's a mockumentary about how often movies mess with historic accuracy in period films.

Printed letterpress from (mostly) period accurate wood and metal type, a wood ornamental border, and a linocut.

Wanted poster for the movie Jonah Hex.

Hand printed letterpress from 19th century wood and metal type and a linocut image of Josh Brolin as the main character.

Everybody who does graphic props for movies will eventually design a wanted poster, and a serial killer's notebook. In the case of wanted posters, I'm always duty bound to explain that 19th century wanted posters NEVER had an image of the person on them - they just didn't have easy access to photos of people, nor the technology to easily reproduce them. Once my period accuracy lecture is over with, I go ahead and do the regular wanted poster with the image of the person on it - it's a movie staple, after all.

Self promotion

Book cover for Harper Collins

Art direction: Milan Bozic

Cover design and illustration:

Ross MacDonald

Type is printed letterpress from 19th century wood and metal type