Many thanks to my wife, Yasmin Vereen, who curated, edited and organized this post.🧡
No Words is a visual-based series that relates to current and past projects. No Words 4 takes shape as a series of book covers that I have designed. When I began publishing my own poetry, I began to make my own book covers and fell in love with the process. Book cover design has long been an interest of mine. Eventually, I began to design book and album covers professionally. They range from sleek and minimal to brutish and expressionistic.
Book cover concept for Charles Jackson’s The Lost Weekend
Book cover and back designed for Ryan Kittleman’s novel, The Great Peace
Concepts for book covers of Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago
Concepts for book covers of Henry Miller’s The Rosy Crucifixion
Concepts for various Tom Jobim’s album covers
Concepts for art & fashion magazine covers
Brut collage/draft as a concept for the cover to a e.e. Cummings’ poetry book
Three concepts for Bob Dylan’s album covers
Book cover for Ben D’Alessio’s novel Binge Until Tragedy—three different versions
Three concepts for a cover for a memoir
First draft for the cover of the biography I’m writing of my father, Dr. Henry Stacy Vereen (1942-2018)
Cover I designed for my first novel, American Pleasure (2017)
Cover for my first collection of poetry, 62 Poems from Judson Vereen—and also its Portuguese version cover, translated by my wife Yasmin
Cover for my second collection of poetry, Like A Bird Knows To Sing
Three book cover concepts for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s On Booze
Book cover concept for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is The Night
Book cover concept for William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch
Card with all the book covers designed for The Dangerous Gifts & Holistic series by Peter Hickman (@peterhickman1)
Concept for book cover for Machiavelli’s The Prince
First draft/concept for a photobook of The Rolling Stones
First draft on the cover of a culinary book
Album covers for two of my brother Stefan Vereen’s records
Three book cover concepts for a book of poetry
JSV
2024
Questions about book covers or have a book project of your own? I am available to discuss the details and will help if I can.
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If you did a book of book covers do you think it would finally be acceptable to judge a book by its cover? I love these, JSV. Nice work!