Penguin Random House Book Covers
Role / Design & Illustration
Type / Editorial Design & Art Direction
2018
A series of book covers illustrated and designed to fit the visual language of the publisher, Penguin Random House books. All three share a minimal style where a metaphor is accented - the metaphor being the sparknotes summary.
The Trial Novel by Franz Kafka
Catch-22 Novel by Joseph Heller
The Old Man and the Sea Novel by Ernest Hemingway
The Trial tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader.
“The Revolution evaporates, and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. The chains of tormented mankind are made out of red tape.” — Franz Kafka
Catch-22, satirical novel by American writer Joseph Heller, published in 1961. The work centres on Captain John Yossarian, an American bombardier stationed on a Mediterranean island during World War II, and chronicles his desperate attempts to stay alive.
The “catch” in Catch-22 involves a mysterious Army Air Forces regulation which asserts that a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions but that if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.
Lonely, he's Mr. Lonely...The old man lives his life isolated from most people—especially during his time on the sea. This isolation defines who he is, and emphasizes the unique nature of his character. Isolation becomes both a weakness (he suffers from loneliness), but also a necessary element to his battle with the fish. Although the old man accepts and admits help from others, it is alone that he does battle with the marlin and must prove himself and his capabilities.
