Book Cover Design
2022
Words from Designer:
This book is published by a Chinese writer who wanted his book to be a compilation of prose articles that covering his travels across the countries, his options on traditional literature and art, and many creative writings focusing on daily life.
I wanted the book cover to look unique and boutique, with a tradition sense but inclusive with modern concepts. I made the cover to look like a tradition Chinese ink painting (inspired by the masterpieces by Shenzhou 沈周 ), all the lines were constructed by sentences I selected word by word from his book. More than 10 interesting newly created fonts of Chinese characters are used to fit the smoothness of the lines in the image, also giving it some air of contemporization.
P.S. the names of the book, writer and publication are not showing in this image. Instead they are showing as “书名书名“ on the upper right, vertically (meaning ”book name book name“）、”作者名“ on the lower right, vertically (meaning ”writer's name“）and ”出版社名“ at the bottom (meaning “name of publication”).