Design
Over a decade of website design experience with expertise in HTML & CSS coding, as well as Squarespace, Wordpress, and Kajabi CMS platforms. Squarespace Circle Member.
Featured website: Four Queens
They say there’s nothing like a good book: to hold a work of literary art in your hands, to take in the visual representation that is the cover, to open and flip through the pages before delving in. I love designing books.
With 15 years of experience designing book covers and interiors across every genre with every type of publisher for both print and ebook editions, I’ve now designed 300 books. So whether you’re a corporate publisher, nonprofit independent press, self-published writer, or somewhere in between, check out my portfolio and reach out. Let’s talk about books.
Featured book: JOURNEY TO MOUNT TAMALPAIS by Etel Adnan (Litmus Press, 2021)
Published in conjunction with Etel Adnan’s solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum.
While website & book design is my passion, I’ve also designed countless other projects for print and web. Ads, CDs & DVDs, catalogs, magazines, textbooks, posters, postcards, bookmarks, programs, packaging, labels, logos, and merchandise. You name it, I’ve probably made it; and if not, let’s make it!
Featured website: Anne Waldman, internationally recognized and acclaimed poet with over 60 published books.
Endorsements
Thank you, HR! You’re the best. I really appreciate your work on this book. It was an intricate one, and your design looks fantastic.
—Lindsey Boldt, Nightboat Books Managing Editor
First let me say this work is INCREDIBLE! I can't believe how great it looks! Thank you so much for the real thought and work and heart that comes across here. I am really moved and blown away. Thank you so much. It's truly moving and life affirming.
—Cait O’Kane
Do you know designer HR Hegnauer? HR worked on this book and one can tell. HR’s a writer and performer as well as a designer, and brings, well, an ethic, to the task of turning an author’s work into an object. I say all this, all this about design and whatnot because to me (& to you) it really does matter; it has an effect on one’s relationship with the poems; here, it’s a wide page, margins aplenty, but few words, almost a Celanesque glint, a Dickinsonian glister to the shape and vector of the words aligned as they are — content not withstanding, then content to be withstanding, with metaphysical inquiry, with age-old conundrums.
— Noah Eli Gordon, The Volta
Thank you so much, HR! People love the website!
— Etel Adnan & Simone Fatal
So happy about the website — excellent & elegant! People love it! You are a genius at so many things — gratitude.
— Anne Waldman
Huge thanks to HR for laying this out with such incredible respect for the poems—their stanza breaks, especially—really can see the grace in her work, and it was a thrill to go through this because of that. Thank you!
—Jessica Laser
O my! This is IT. It's perfect. It's so lascivious, but curious, slightly feline, very botanical, darling, and nasty. Thank you. Wow!
— Lyn Hejinian
The website!! How amazingly beautiful. I think the designer did a magnificent job!! Please pass along my heart felt congratulations. I know Leslie would be thrilled, and beyond pleased!
— Petah Coyne
The physical book itself is so aesthetically pleasing, that one might be tempted to frame it.
— Robin Elizabeth Sampson, We Who Are About to Die
What makes this particular edition a joy to hold is the design by HR Hegnauer, incorporating cover art by Nancy Blum. With a 7"x8" trim size, 148 pages of creamy, heavyweight paper, generous 1.5" margins, and even pumpkin-colored endpapers!, this is the kind of book that reminds you why all is not lost for the medium. Seeing that it was printed under the guidelines of the Green Press Initiative just makes the feeling that much more snuggly. Kudos to Blum, Hegnauer, and Belladonna* for a thoughtful and pleasing design befitting the work of Harryman and Hejinian. Brill, brill, and brill.
— Tarpaulin Sky