At right is the cover for the book Big Butts, Fat Thighs, and Other Secrets to Success by Laura Black. This self-help book for professional women is self-published by the author, who hired Sensical Design to produce it. She gave us a fairly specific brief for the...
At right is a first look at the cover to the new Ruka Press book Horseshoe Crab: Biography of a Survivor by Anthony D. Fredericks, which will be released in May. The book is an entertaining look at the natural history and ecological niche of the horseshoe crab, a...
The cover for the book Joaquim Nabuco: His Time and His Legacy, designed for the Embassy of Brazil in Washington, DC, and the Library of Congress. Nabuco was the first Brazilian Ambassador to the United States, serving from 1905 to 1910, when he died. Before that, he...
We recently designed this cover for My Second Campus: The Independent Almanac of Study Abroad Programs. This new book offers a comprehensive listing of study abroad programs associated with colleges in New England. The interior is data rich and complex, requiring...
At right is the cover of the second book from our publishing arm, Ruka Press: Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for A Vanishing Songbird by Katie Fallon. Cerulean Blues describes the plight of the cerulean warbler, a tiny migratory songbird, and its struggle to...
Sensical Design recently completed this annual report for the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, a program of the World Bank's Carbon Finance Unit that helps developing countries save their endangered forests. The 36-page report features an assortment of beautiful...
We recently completed this new logo for Realize Ink, a small business that specializes in marketing communications, strategy, and fundraising for charities and other nonprofits. After we brainstormed a number of initial approaches, Rabia Shirazi, the company's...
We're currently immersed in the design of the first book to be published by our sister company, Ruka Press. The book is titled Among the Ancients: Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth Forests. We designed a number of different cover choices, and last month put the...
We've recently completed a logo redesign for a nonprofit, the California Civil Rights Coalition. CCRC is a statewide alliance of civil rights organizations, activists, educators, lawyers, and advocates. Their existing logo (top) was a generic map of California matched...
We've recently completed two books for the same client, Red Cell Publishing, for which we recently won an award. The first, Iran's Dirty Banking, delves into the Iranian government's attempts to skirt monetary sanctions, and names the foreign and U.S. banks that are...