Book cover design – 
Melancholy and the Self

This is a book cover design made for a film set. The central theme
of the film is melancholy, as experienced by the portagonist who is also the author of this fictional book. The cover had to convey the idea that it is a philosophical book on this topic. The cover features an original drawing inspired by a work of Edward Munch.
The typeface - Cormorant Garamond - was chosen for it's elegant
shape, which looks timeless and airy.

This is a book cover design made for a film set.
The central theme of the film is melancholy, as experienced by the portagonist who is also the author of this fictional book. The cover had to convey the idea that it is a philosophical book on this topic. The cover features an original drawing inspired by a work of Edward Munch.
The typeface - Cormorant Garamond - was chosen for it's elegant shape, which looks timeless and airy.

Client
Serkalo Filmproduction

Services
Graphic Design, Illustration, print preparation

Category
Graphic design

Target Group
Readers with a philosophical outlook on life.

This is what the first round looked like, while we were searching for the perfect image for this cover

Finally, we settled on a painting by E.Munch which captures the idea of melancholy in a really interesting way. I made a digital version of this painting on my procreate, which looks close to the orginal image but still retains originality. I used even more purple than on the original work, as that was the key colour in the film.

This is the original painting :

Edvard Munch, Melancholie, 1983.

 

Below you can see the final finished cover with my rendering of the original painting on it.