the giver

For this project, I was tasked with designing a book cover for a book that I love using an experimental tactile design method. The design was to be type-focused and touch on important aspects of the story in it’s appearance. I chose to design a book cover for The Giver by Lois Lowry. This was one of the first books that I remember reading cover-to-cover multiple times. The story follows Jonas, a young boy in a dystopian-society where they only see in gray-scale. A big part of the story is Jonas being chosen to receive memories from The Giver, and one of those memories allows him to begin seeing in color. As this is a big theme throughout the novel, I wanted to reference the transition from gray to red in Jonas’ life through him receiving the memories. I created the cover art by using acrylic pants on canvas.