These paperback book jackets were developed for a Publication class at Drexel University. Both feature hand-written text and original photography.
On the Road references Jack Kerouac’s famous typewriter manuscript of the novel by creating an abstract paper mache mountainscape out of typewriter-style quotes from the book, which was then photographed and overlaid with scans of the handwritten title. This approach was inspired by one particular quote: “The mountains, the magnificent Rockies that you can see to the west from any part of town, were ‘papier-mache.’ The whole universe was crazy and cockeyed and extremely strange.”
The Remains of the Day uses hazy, dreamy imagery of layered skies and clocks to convey the themes of memory and the passage of time that the book addresses.
