Perspectives on book cover design
This self-initiated book cover series explores a reader’s relationship with a book rather than the content of a book. It interrogates the role of the cover and the cover designer in publication design — given that the designer assigns meaning to the story as a reader, can it ever really truly reflect an author’s intention? This process was also an exercise in mark-making and responding intuitively. It was a radical departure from my normal process of designing a commercial book cover: thoroughly reading the manuscript, meticulously researching a topic, speaking to the author, looking at an author’s other work, asking the publisher lots of questions, considering an audience. This however, was an act of listening deeply and being present.