Here’s the cover for a recent redesign of Joseph Michael Owen’s eclectic collection of stories. Due to the playful nature of his prose, I knew, right from the start, that the cover would fixate on typeface and color; specifically how color consumed the negative space while the eyes quickly scanned to the words so freely scribbled across the center of the cover.
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(Design) Jordan Castro’s “Young Americans”
Here’s the cover for Jordan’s upcoming full-length poetry collection. The choice to maintain a careful balance between minimalism and patterned extravagance matches the style and tone of Jordan’s poetry. Using a public domain picture of downtown New York as a base, I manipulated a few layers in varying filters and meshed them together with approximately three layers of grain and brushstroke paint.