The Third Bear
by Jeff VanderMeer
Client: Jeff VanderMeer, Tachyon Press
Scope: cover and interior design
Published: 2010
Jeff VanderMeer asked me to design the cover and interior for his fiction collection, The Third Bear, published by Tachyon in July of 2010.
I tried to combine the beauty and menace that are both equally found in Jeff's work. The interior design was very restrained and carried over a few of the cover elements for continuity.
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