Friday May 6th 2011
11:50 PM
Client: Wave Books
This cover for another fine collection of verse from Wave Books came around the last presidential regime, when everything was as divided and messed up as it is now and headed for another perceived swing of the political pendulum. My take on the climate of things in this country tends to veer from dark to pitch black and I wanted to stay away from anything that remotely resembled a traditional idea of patriotism. Wave is one of the few publishers I’ve worked with who absolutely do not want literal treatments, which allowed me to work on this from a strictly intuitive perspective, working with textures and allusion to come to a place where the political landscape isn’t necessarily determined by ideology, but something older, insidious and ultimately ominous. See my blog for more versions of this cover.
Beaucoup design samples can be found here.
