Dream Life is a book centered around my life as an insomniac. This cover emphasizes the feeling of day-dreaming through-out life, as well as the continual feeling of sleepiness.
Objective: design a book jacket that represents a principal aspect of your life at this current point in time
Roles: designer, illustrator, writer
Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Procreate
2021
For my design, I wanted a clear and strong color palette to be shown. I stuck with only a few muted earth tone colors with the splash of a muted orange. The night time sky is responsible for allowing the reader to understand that this book will be centered around night time. This dark blue also exudes calmness. I made the illustration of myself orange since it exudes an energetic feeling, which is in contrast with the illustration being of me sleeping. This contrast represents that although there are so many things I want to do, my sleepiness usually takes over. The oranges in the tree represent the daunting tasks that Iām faced with and feel like are falling on top of me. It also, of course, represents being in Syracuse. Lastly, my text color supports the starlight color in the background.