Bugs topping the Children’s Book Bestseller List

Barnas bok om småkryp, written and illustrated by my dear grandmother Vesla Vetlesen, and designed by yours truly, is currently topping the bestseller list at bok365.no for Norwegian children's books. Not bad for a book that was released last...

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Some New Book Covers

Some New Book Covers

Some book cover designs I did earlier this winter have now found their way to the to the book shops. Trude Teige's crime series and the professor Trondstad biography. Bokomslagene jeg designet til Trude Teiges krimpocketserie om Kajsa Coren og Olav...

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Jenta som sluttet å snakke nominert til pris

Jenta som sluttet å snakke nominert til pris

Jenta som sluttet å snakke, av Trude Teige, er nominert til Bokhandlerprisen. Det er jo litt morsomt synes jeg ettersom jeg har laget omslaget. Lykke til Trude! Les mer her!

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The Terror of Gestapo

The Terror of Gestapo

Another book cover I did for the paper back edition of a WW2 documentary that I just received.

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Entering the Realm of Crime

Entering the Realm of Crime

… not literally, but this is the first book cover I have done for a crime novel, Jenta som sluttet å snakke (The Girl Who Stopped Talking) by Trude Teige, published by Aschehoug forlag. The book is now available in...

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Sailing with Death

The most recent book cover I did was a job that had a special meaning to me, since it was for a book written by my own late grandfather, Leif Vetlesen, and his friend Ingvald Wahl. They both sailed...

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Bitter seier goes to print

Sent off the files for the cover of Alf R. Jacobsen's Bitter seier: Narvik, 10. april – 10. juni 1940 to print yesterday. It is the fourth and final book in his series about the German invasion of Norway...

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Barnas bok om småkryp

Barnas bok om småkryp

Recently designed the book cover for an illustrated children's book about insects to be published by Vega Forlag in the spring of 2013. Beautiful water colour illustrations by Vesla Vetlesen.

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Nostalgic cookbook

Sent off to the printers today: Petter Schjerven's latest book All mat kommer fra Ungarn – Nostalgisk kokebok (wich translates into something like: Hungary is the Origin of all Food – Nostalgic cookbook), an entertaining look back at old cookery and recipes. A...

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Norges kriger in the press

Norges kriger got a whole spread devoted to the book in the tabloid VG earlier this week. Love that they made the main image so big (good thing I sent huge image files).

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