York Daily Record graphic designer helps place fellow artist Lewis Miller in the spotlight
The York, Pa., Daily Record’s Samantha Dellinger designed this cover for a recent book on the works of noted York County artist Lewis Miller.
Journalists engage their communities in many different ways – via social media or appearances around town.
Some York Daily Record/Sunday News journalists roll with the NewsVroom. Others do volunteer work in the community.
For years, YDR artist Samantha Dellinger has quietly designed covers for a variety of major York County Heritage Trust publications.
In the past seven or so years, she’s done many – maybe most – of the covers of the Trust’s books and scholarly journals.
Her most recent project was the design of the dust jacket for the most significant Heritage Trust publications project in decades – a collection of work by York County’s most famous artist, Lewis Miller.
So artist Samantha Dellinger’s 21st-century efforts helped showcase the artwork of the 19th-century’s Lewis Miller.
What was it like to work on a project involving this internationally known artist?
“It was really exciting because he’s an artist and I’m an artist,” she said.
But Samantha, an award-winning artist in the world of news, felt no pressure. She wanted to get the colors right, and she chose a simple design to put the spotlight squarely on Miller.
No pressure, indeed.
“It was more like an honor … ,” she said.
By now, Samantha Dellinger has a bookshelf full of books that bear covers that she’s designed. But she always shares the books with her father, Keith Harrold, a true history buff. Here, we have the full Dellinger-designed dust cover.
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Samantha Dellinger designed these scholarly journal covers. The top one displays some of ‘Lewis Miller’s People.’ The bottom cover shows silhouettes by longtime York County artist Jim Rudisill.
