In the summer of ’95 I had another catholic textbook project from St Mary’s Press who I had worked with the year before. Once again they flew me out confer with the design staff in their offices in Minnesota for the day. This was the only client in my twenty years in the business who felt a need to speak to me in person, but of course, this was back in the days before email was as widely used as it is today. I wanted to do something a bit different from the assignment the year before, so I brought along a sample of a newer ‘paint’ style that I’d been playing around with. They went for it on the chapter openers, but still wanted my scratchboards for various spots sprinkled throughout the book . I didn’t think the two styles meshed all that well, but I thought the designers did a real nice job of integrating the paintings into the design of the book, using extreme detail shots of some of them, and using colored backgrounds that I created for the purpose throughout the book.

The book is still available (and amazingly still in print) at Amazon (link here)