Just received a copy of the book for which I designed the front cover back in the fall. The back and spine were designed by the lovely and talented Sigrid Albert of StepUp Communications.

Designed for Adrienne L. Burk and the UBC press, with this cover they really wanted to focus on the image and keep things extremely clean and simple. Abstract: “Three monuments in Vancouver, British Columbia, located closely in time and geography and all concerning violence, were created not by one, but rather by three separate groups of advocates. Given that in each case the advocates were drawn from the socially marginalized, it would seem logical that the groups would have had to work together to accomplish something as complex as gaining access to public space with the permanence of monuments. But instead, a close examination of the development and uses of these three monuments reveals the profundity of several mechanisms of social distance. Those noted here include (a) the intransigence of structures of social exclusion, (b) the dispossession caused by the legacy of colonialism, and (c) the nature of trauma.”