#emily st john mandel
Next in the book cover series–here is my design for Station Eleven, by Emily St, John Mandel. Though I wasn’t enamoured with the writing, I appreciated that taking on this design project lead me to abstract the subject matter. The text was so replete with visual images that I wanted to get away with a more expected direction.
I’ll be posting more cover designs over the next few weeks on this blog, but you can check them out on my website, too.
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It seems fitting that my 100th event for Station Eleven was a) in Michigan and b) involved an actual traveling Shakespeare company. This is my reading copy. It lives in my suitcase.
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books I’ve read in 2022 no. 052
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
“We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
She’d never believed in love at first sight but she did believe in recognition at first sight, she believed in understanding upon meeting someone for the first time that they were going to be important in her life, a sensation like recognizing a familiar face in an old photograph: in a sea of faces that mean nothing, one comes into focus. You.
-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel
I knew Entertainment Weekly had picked Station Eleven as their favourite book of the year, but didn’t know until I bought the magazine that they’d provided an illustration of the Traveling Symphony’s lead caravan. I especially like the driver in the captain’s hat. Station Eleven went into its eleventh printing this week.
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Don’t know what to pick up first? Here are some of our top sellers from the last couple months!
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