Client: Picador
Added: July 31, 2009
Updated: April 12, 2011
Views: 5549
Discipline: Book Cover Design
Tags: book cover, fiction, nazi, wagner
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Description:
I just completed this paperback cover for a novel published by Picador. It's a historical fiction built around an imagined relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler.
The ornamental border comes from a playbill for Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal, and it frames a Nazi propaganda photo that I tinted.
I also customized/re-drew the title type. It's based on a typeface named Becker that came with this awesome buch.
Thanks for the super-cool (and kinda creepy) project, Henry!
The first image is the approved design, the second and third were also submitted.
Art Director: Henry Yee
Alex Camlin said on July 31, 2009
Thanks Jason!
Steve: I liked that first alt. cover too. There's parts in the story where Hitler is telling fairy tales and staging puppet shows with Wagner's grandchildren...I was going for a 30s German children's book look and feel.
Aaron Artessa said on August 13, 2009
Having worked on the hardcover I can say I love this paperback. Good find on the playbill.
Christopher Tobias said on August 19, 2009
These are great. Love the feel. Nostalgic but not expected.
Steve Cooley | Cooley Design Lab said on July 31, 2009