Surf Mama

By mina / September 2, 2011 / Book Covers, Books / No Comments

Hardback art book memoir I worked on during my internship at Beautiful Books.

The dust jacket has blue surfboards that divide the sections and make up the spine. The cover was Wilma’s painting and her own lettering so I felt the design had to match the mood:

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End paper: Wilma uses flowers in her work all the time so a flower pattern made out of surfboards seemed fitting:

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To make the artwork and text float nicely every chapter has a B&W icon by Wilma that relates to the story. The page numbers have a wave that goes up and down when you flip them like a flip-book:

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I had mentioned the part separators a while back, well, here they are with some minor changes:

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Spread with one of my favourite paintings:

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More endpaper and back flap featuring Wilma’s portrait:

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Detail of the back cover with some of the chapter icons and layout inspired by 60s surf magazines:

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Available from Foyles, Amazon or any good book seller!