The original cover of A Victory Garden for Trying Times, a memoir by Debi Goodwin, looked quite different. With my background as an illustrator I’m always looking for ways to use illustration in my work, and this memoir seemed like a great fit. We knew that garlic, imagery that begins and ends the book and a symbol of faithfulness, would be our subject. The colours and type treatment were meant to evoke the style of the posters about victory gardens from WW2. I worked on some illustrated concepts and we ended up with this, and the whole team agreed on it.