Happy New Year! We wanted to draw your attention to a project we worked on across much of 2014. The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) asked us to design their new internal procurement guide as an e-book. The guide runs about 80 pages and includes a variety of...
We are thrilled to say that the cover we designed last year for the book Horseshoe Crab: Biography of a Survivor was honored last night with an award from the Washington Book Publishers. The book, which we designed for our publishing arm, Ruka Press, was a winner in...
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...
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...
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 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...
The cover we designed last year for Avi Jorisch's book Tainted Money, highlighted here, has won an award in the Washington Book Publishers' annual Design and Effectiveness competition. The cover won Best in Class in Typographic Covers, Commercial Publishers. This is...
Tainted Money At right is the cover for the book Tainted Money: Are We Losing the War on Money Laundering and Terrorism Finance? by Avi Jorisch. This book about money laundering and terrorism financing is primarily intended for a readership of policy makers,...