Project: Book Covers
Personal Cover Redesigns
About the Project
I decided to redesign the cover of one of my favorite books of poetry, Inger Christensen's Alphabet (translated from the Danish by Susanna Nied). Each section of the book corresponds to a letter of the alphabet, with Christensen declaring the existence of things beginning with that letter. While starting from simple premise, the book ventures deeply into the beauty of the human condition as well as its darkest aspects. I designed the cover to mimic the book's structure, selecting nouns found in the poems to spell out the title. The color is a reference to the book's first subject, apricot trees.
About the Project
The second cover redesign is for Anne Carson's "novel in verse," Autobiography of Red. The novel was inspired by the myth of the Tenth Labor of Herakles and its victim, the red monster Geryon. I designed a dust jacket as well as an underlying hard cover. My redesign simplifies and updates the novel's original cover. In particular, I reimagined the illustration of Mount Vesuvius as an abstracted, geometric form.
