Book Jacket Design

Aimee Bender's Willful Creatures
This project was a design for the book Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender. Willful Creatures is a collection of short stories that capture the beautiful writing style of Aimee Bender. She has been described as writing with a singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion which I was trying to capture with this design. The stories are all very different but are tied together by Aimee's writing style. With the design I wanted to capture this two layer idea that things aren't always what they look like along with revealing something. I went with a surreal image of the sky and then used a second layer with the jacket cut out. The two layer design is to show the action of unzipping a whole new layer similar to how you feel as you are reading through each chapter one after the other.