#qbdchallenge Day 5: A Dystopian Adventure Well most dystopian books don’t feel like an adventure due to the very nature of them, but this is categorised as post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction so I think it counts? Station Eleven tells the story of a travelling troupe of actors as they perform Shakespeare following a pandemic that destroys the world we know
To be loved is a calamity for someone with your job. You have work to do. Work. Love will try to see the words before it’s finished. Love makes work impossible. Survival is insufficient. I don’t want to live the wrong life and then die. I am at my best when I’m escaping.
To be loved is a calamity for someone with your job. You have work to do. Work. Love will try to see the words before it’s finished. Love makes work impossible. Survival is insufficient. I don’t want to live the wrong life and then die. I am at my best when I’m escaping.
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.
Another commission, a couple books I loved, a couple I didn’t and a couple of new books to add to my tbr! Happy with how the print turned out too
The top image is the ‘this is what the actual editions look like’ version, but after checking in with the customer we decided the Saga hardback would look better with an image from the compendium added in, so I had a go at an abstract version of Fiona Staples’ wonderful art.
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