Books.

Quarantine Survival Manual Chapbook

A book designed under the duress of early quarantine, and to contain all the writing my friends and I were doing to keep ourselves sane. It’s a project I would do again in a heartbeat, and indeed intend to. Illustrations by Petra Hanson.

Writer’s Chapbook

Another chapbook of the work of an all-female group of friends and fellow writers, created in fall of 2022 in time for the holiday season. Again, Petra Hanson contributed the stunning interior images.

Lit Night Anthology

I designed this in collaboration with the multi-talented Petra Hanson. Please check out her website to see her bold and cheeky brand, informed by her experience in fashion knitwear, UI, and illustration.

Andromeda: A Glossary

This is the first section of my graphic memoir, entitled “Andromeda: A Glossary” (the whole book is as yet untitled). The pages above are not actually in order, but I thought these images together gave a sense of the project. This project was created for a class, and I made all the graphics and wrote all the text. It is the first time I have used art creatively and not professionally, but it won’t be the last!

Architextuality

This is an academic thesis I made into a book as a gift for a friend.

La Bievre

This is an art-book combining an extant text with lithography by book artist Clair Illouz. It is a translation of Joris Karl Huysmans The River Bievre. Illouz illustrated it, my father Rob Swigart translated it into English, and I laid it out. Illouz then printed the images on the thick card-stock with the text and bound it in a limited run of 55, where each copy was sold as an art object.

Rob Swigart Poetry Chapbook

For his birthday, I collected all my father’s poems and had a limited run published just for family members. We had more printed later, but never made the book public. The theme is archeology as metaphor for personal discovery, so I used illustrations that evoked 19th century naturalism and scientific drawing.

A Few More

Here are a few more books I’ve designed over the years.