3 book jacket designs that communicate the process of injuring, suturing and healing of a wound.
Book jackets made for 3 of The Giver Series -The Giver, Gathering Blue and Messenger- written by Lois Lowry, which communicate stories of pain, sewing and healing, throughout. All of the designs are expressed typographically in different ways to showcase each distinct storyline, but the overall visual style maintains consistency to showcase the books' intertwining stories. The jacket designs encompass front and back covers, spine, as well as French flaps.
The Concept
The book jackets communicate the "process of healing a wound" mainly through manual typographic treatment. The first book The Giver, which presents the burden, would visually represent the wound and pain the main character experiences, through ripped and scanned typography.
The second book Gathering Blue, communicates the suturing, through sewed printed typography with a needle and a thread, tying back to one of the main character's sewing skills.
Lastly the third book Messenger -which focuses on one of its characters as the healer- delivers a message of healing through stitching and scarring and imperfect manual typographic placement.
The Treatment
Lois Lowry introduces the reader to three different storylines, which relate back to each other. Therefore, there was a need to tie each of the stories together, being manual typography one of the main mediums.
The use of a printer, scanner, needle and thread where crucial to the development of the concept. Later, when the composition was designed, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign were used to finalize and retouch the deliverables.
