Little Bird Stories, Vol. 7
— PROJECT NAME
Little Bird Stories, Vol. 7
Published by Invisible Publishing
— ROLE
Book cover design, interior design, logo design
— DATE
April, 2022
— TOOLS
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
Little Bird Stories, Vol. 7, was created during my time in the Book Publishing practicum at York University in tandem with Invisible Publishing. The book is a short story collection, part of an ongoing series from the Sarah Selecky Writing School and their Little Bird Stories writing contest, and is now available for purchase through Invisible Publishing.
For Volume 7, I was responsible for designing the covers and the interiors of the book. For the cover, I chose a public domain painting by Johann Friedrich Naumann. For the interiors, drawing on the bird theme present in each volume, many of the illustrations either reference birds or allude to a significant visual cue in each respective story. The images are either public domain, drawn by hand, or I used creative solutions to make them.
For example, for "Pufferman", which featured cheese puffs and caramel cakes as a plot point, I scanned some Cheetos and rice cakes, and via Photoshop and Illustrator, turned them into "hand-drawn" sketches.
Parnassian Publishing
— PROJECT NAME
Parnassian Publishing
— ROLE
Logo Design
— DATE
April, 2022
— TOOLS
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
Parnassian Publishing was an imprint created under Invisible Publishing during my time in the Book Publishing practicum at York University. It's sole publication, Little Bird Stories, Vol. 7, was published in April 2022.
The name was chosen for it's relevance as a literary term, and for it's strong imagery evoking Mount Parnassus in Greece.
Because of this, throughout the design process for the logo, it was important to include mountains in every draft.
The final logo in the published book.
What Lies in the Garden
— PROJECT NAME
What Lies in the Garden
— ROLE
Book cover design, interior design, story draft
— DATE
December, 2021
— TOOLS
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
What Lies in the Garden is a prospective retelling of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel The Secret Garden—but with vampires. It was created during my time in the Book Publishing Practicum at York University.
To design this book cover, I relied on Victorian gothic aesthetics, with a darker colour scheme that nods to the vampiric allusions in the story, for which I wrote a brief draft.
