i do not cede
Cover designs for ebook & audiobook
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A chapbook collection
of poems by poet,
publisher & editor
Heather McPherson
(1942-2017).
Availiable in ebook & audio versions.
A cover design project that was part of a 2021-22 Spiral collective collaboration with Marian Evans and editor Emer Lyons (Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand).
The cover was also formed with a certain amount of assumed collaboration:
a rendering of Heather's own handwriting to announce her own work;
Susan Kare’s 'Geneva' typeface, published in 1983 when professional font design was largely a male preserve;
plus, an image from the wonderful 1975 photographic series by Jane Zusters, capturing Heather herself editing at her kitchen table.
Acknowledgements to the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Previous stages of design below: