Ashley Muehlbauer Book Design

Happy Halloween! I'll be the one dressed up in all the hats and scarves 🥶.

This week's Saturday Sketch.

It's been a while since I shared a design from my archives. I wasn't sure where to start, so I pulled up a random word generator and it gave me "rural." And what better population to highlight for Labor Day weekend than family farmers?

Family Farming: A New Economic Vision, New Edition by Marty Strange. , 2008

Happy first day of September! 🍁🍂🍁

My final two submissions to the save-the-date design challenge.

Fall book cover season is just getting started and I already have a few designs that I'm eager to share, but in the meantime here's a drawing of a peacock. 🦚

Another one of my submissions for the save-the-date design challenge. I almost didn't include this one, but it's turning out to be a favorite.

I traveled to my 20-year high school reunion last weekend, and brought home a lovely case of covid as a souvenir. I drew this bulldog (my hs mascot) in between naps, but I'm pretty sure I'm mad at it.

I decided to mix it up this month and try something new, so I entered one of the design challenges by . This is one of my entries for a save-the-date. If you feel like clicking through 1,700+ designs 🤪, you can vote on this and all the other entries through Sep. 1st on the Minted website.

I liked the way my dark green leggings looked with my pink fingernail polish yesterday, so I drew this 😆. Fall vibes even though we're under a heat advisory over here.

When your daughter asks you to draw a flamingo and zebra mash up and you get a little carried away...

It's time for some interior text design love. I spend a lot of my design time working on interiors, even though they don't show up in my posts as often. This spring I worked on my biggest typesetting job yet--a 2,599 page Bible (that required all of the footnotes to be placed by hand because of specific formatting requests 😬)!

Here's a selection of recent title pages from books I've designed and typeset for . Enjoy!
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An ice cream pattern to celebrate our last week full week of summer break!

Happy pub day to What to Count! Now available through !

The swimming dachshund needed a lifeguard cat, obviously.

New cover for Fortress Press!

Work Out Your Salvation: A Theology of Markets and Moral Formation by D. Glenn Butner Jr. Available April 2024.

I couldn't get myself to sit down and work, but I did convince myself to draw a swimming dachshund.

Cover reveal for The Empathic God: A Clinical Theology of At-Onement by Frank Woggon. Available May 2024 from Fortress Press.

Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry is now available through !

Cover reveal for a new client--Fortress Press.

Youth Beyond the Developmental Lens: Being over Becoming by Wesley W. Ellis. Available January 2024.

Here's a roundup of my illustrations from the month of July. The point was just to have fun and play around with different styles, so they're not necessarily meant to be cohesive. On to something new for August!

Cover reveal for ! First slide is the final, approved version. Swipe for some unchosen concepts.

Happy pub day to Vows, Veils, and Masks by !
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Happy Pub Month to The Disappeared: Remnants of a Dirty War by Sam Ferguson!

Happy Pub Day to An Influencer's World by Caroline Baker and Don Baker!

New cover for !

Dissonant Voices: Race, Jazz, and Innovative Poetics in Midcentury America by Joseph Pizza; AD: Karen Copp

Here's a cover I recently designed for for a revised, gender-sensitive edition of the Tanakh.

New cover reveal for . This book is complex and nuanced, a reflective meditation of a carpenter set to the backdrop of a wood mill. I wanted something beautiful and a little unexpected for this one. Thanks goes to my carpenter neighbor for lending me a cup of sawdust!

Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences by Matthew J. C. Clark. AD: Karen Copp

Cover refresh for

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah by Joel Hecker

Happy pub day to Feminist Rehearsals by May Summer Farnsworth!