Evan Johnston Graphic Design

Evan Johnston is a book designer & illustrator
living in Brooklyn, New York.


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Cover for The Silence of the Horizons. Translated by Marjolin de Jager. The cover shows an illustration of a blue-clad bedouin, walking away across a dune, with the words

The Silence of the Horizons
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Cover for The Lives and Deaths of Veronique Bangoura. A Novel by Tienro Monembo. Translated by Michael Chamberlain.

The Lives and Deaths of Veronique Bangoura
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Cover for The Bone Whisperers by Taina Tervonen. Translated by Sarah Robertson. The cover shows a crude illustration of copper-colored skeletal hand against a blue textured background, with the words

The Bone Whisperers
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Cover for The Sanctuary by Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya. Translated by Andrea G. Labinger. The cover shows a crude, ragged ink drawing of a dog or wolf head, with the words

The Sanctuary
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Cover for The Stone Breakers by Emmanuel Dongala. Translated by Sara Hanaburgh. An image two cupped African hands, clutching gravel, with stones slipping through the fingers.

The Stone Breakers
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Cover for Milwaukee Blues by Lyonel Trouillot. Translated by Marjolijn de Jager. The cover shows the back of a black man facing two rectangular abstractions which might buildings, with an orange sky. Red light reflects off the buildings and the man's skin.

Milwaukee Blues
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Cover for Pariahs by the author known as Beyrouk. Translated by Marjolijn de Jager. An image of a bedouin in the desert.

Pariahs
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Cover for Antoine of Gommiers, a book by Lyonel Trouillot, and translated by Nathan H. Size

Antoine of Gommiers
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Cover for The Mediterranean Wall by Louis-Philippe Dalembert and translated by Marjolijn de Jager

The Mediterranean Wall
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Cover for Proceed with Caution by Patrica Ratto

Proceed with Caution
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Cover for So Lame, a Poem by Devon Walker-Figueroa

So Lame
Cover Illustration
Berfrois


 

Frontispiece for So Lame

So Lame
Frontispiece Illustration
Berfrois

 

Illustration of a 1930s radio for Beowulf: A Novel of the London Blitz
Illustration of stack of letters for Beowulf: A Novel of the London Blitz

Illustration of a watercolor for Beowulf: A Novel of the London Blitz


Illustrations & Typesetting for the interior of
Beowulf: A Novel of the London Blitz
Schaffner Press



 

Bookcover for Beowulf: A Novel of the London Blitz

Beowulf: A Novel of the London Blitz
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press



Driftless Quintet by Joe Sacksteder

Driftless Quintet
Cover Design
Schaffner Press


 

Kannjawou by Lyonel Trouillot. Cover design by Evan Johnston.

Kannjawou
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Selected illustrations in Kannjawou
Schaffner Press


 

Sleeping Dragons by Magela Baudoin, Cover Design by Evan Johnston

Sleeping Dragons
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Illustration for Sleeping Draongs published by Schaffner Press

Illustration for Sleeping Draongs published by Schaffner Press

Illustration and typesettig for Sleeping Dragons, published by Schaffner Press

Illustration for Sleeping Dragons published by Schaffner Press

 


Illustrations and typesetting for stories
in Sleeping Dragons
Schaffner Press


 

Slum Wolf by Tadao Tsuge, Cover Design by Evan Johnston

Slum Wolf
Cover Design
NYRC


Where the Creek Runs

Where the Creek Runs
Jacket Design & Illustration
Greene Woods Publishing


 

Hard to Grip by Emil DeAndreis

Hard to Grip
Cover Design & Illustration
Schaffner Press


Rosa Remix published by the Rosa Luxemborg Institute Stiftung
Rosa Remix
Cover / Interior Design
Rosa Luxemborg Institute Stiftung


Go Contex Go
Berfrois


Poster for the 2016 Book Show

Poster for the New York Book Show, 2016
The Book Industry Guild of New York

 

Peplum, by Blutch

Peplum, by Blutch
Published by New York Review Comics

 

Theater of Cruelty

Theater of Cruelty by Ian Buruma,
Published by New York Review Books


Cleaning Up New York by Bob Rosenthal

Cleaning Up New York, by Bob Rosenthal
published by The LIttle Bookroom

 

New York Book Show 2015

Poster for the New York Book Show, 2015
The Book Industry Guild of New York

 

Poets for Corbyn, Various Authors
Published by Berfrois

 

Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians, by Daniel Mendelsohn
published by New York Review Books
A National Book Critics Circle Award, Finalist

(I also designed the paperback)

 

The Egg White Cookbook

The Egg White Cookbook,
by Margaret Blackstone & Barbara Leopold
Published by M. Evans and Company

 

Wages of Guilt Book Cover Design for New York Review Books

The Wages of Guilt, by Ian Buruma
Published by New York Review Books

 

Dreams of Earth and Sky by Freeman Dyson

Dreams of Earth and Sky, by Freeman Dyson
Published by New York Review Books

 

Map Created for Literary Brooklyn

Map created for Literary Brooklyn,
by Evan Hughes, Henry Holt Publishing

 

New York Book Show : 2014

Poster for the 2013 New York Book Show,
The Book Industry Guild of New York

 

Healing Stories

Healing Stories, by Jacqueline Golding, Ph.D.,
published by M. Evans and Company, Inc.

 

The Anthropology of Health and Healing,
by Mari Womack, published by Rowman and Littlefield

 

 

Last Laughs Interior Design for Sterling Publishing

Last Laughs, by Katherine Miller
(Interior design)
Sterling Publishing

 

The Best Flea Markets Published by the Little Bookroom

The Best Flea, Antique, Vintage, and New-Style
Markets in America, by Pamela Keech
published by The LIttle Bookroom

 

A Tale of Two Pitchers

A Tale of Two Pitchers, by Roy Rowan
published by Taylor Trade Publishing

 

New York Book Show : 2014

Poster for the 2012 New York Book Show,
The Book Industry Guild of New York

 

 

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