Just a quick note to say The Poundshop #5 is open for 3 days starting today! Amazing stuff this year, shop online for last minute Secret Santa presents or to treat yourself (I know I will, been a good girl). I’m also mega happy they asked me to make more pocket books, the new collection features some of my favourite authors of all times: Virginia Woolf, Saki and F. Scott Fitzgerald. All HERE.
Launch party Downstairs at Mother tonight cannot wait!
☞ Read MoreAnother month, another book for The Book Cover Club.
We chose The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald and I will admit it’s been quite the challenge.
The story is so rich with symbols and double entendres that I felt I had to incorporate them in the design. I looked at Man Ray’s many surrealist experiments with photography from around the same time Fitzgerald was writing the novel and played around with my design for a couple of weeks, adding layers as I went along.
This is my first effort:
I was happy with it but at that point I was too obsessed with the book to let go. I wanted to try another approach with the all-seeing eye using Fitzgerald’s style and the over use of subordinating and complex sentences in his writing applied to the visuals. Not sure I’m making much sense here but I wanted all the elements to relate to each other combining and elongating the composition in the way words would in a long sentence.
Way out of my comfort zone but I really enjoyed working on this!
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