Cover Design
A Little Life is a novel written by Hanya Yanagihara. The novel follows the lives of four friends in New York City from college through to middle-age. It focuses particularly on Jude, a lawyer with a mysterious past, ambiguous ethnicity, and unexplained health issues.
I decided to redesign the cover of A Little Life after I finished the book. Despite its significant length, I found myself couldn't stop reading it. The subject matter is quite dark, and initially I indeed planned to create a dark color cover. However when I finish the illustration, I found the white version is very much compelling.
The illustration image is a wrinkled bed sheet that looks like mountains. In the novel, bed is an intimate and important place for the main character.
The wrinkles and the mountainous shapes represent all the difficult, unspeakable, heavy stories that happened to the characters.
This is a personal project. No content here was commissioned.
《渺小一生》是美国作家柳原汉雅的小说。讲述了四位生活在纽约的密友跨越三十年的故事。其中主要描写了Jude，一位有着神秘过往的律师。
我读完这本书之后就决定为此书重新设计一个封面。尽管此书篇幅很长，但是我却爱不释手。书的主题比较沉重，我的确考虑过设计一个暗色的封面。但是当我完成封面插画之后，我觉得白色反而更有感染力。
封面的插画是一张床单褶皱的特写。形状犹如山峦叠嶂。在这部小说中，床是一个很重要的意象，它象征着私密。我用这些床单褶皱来代表主人公那些复杂的，黑暗的，难以启齿的经历。
Title Design 标题设计
Chapter Title Design
Bookmark Design 书签设计
