Gentle & Fierce - Vanessa Berry
Book Cover Series Design
These illustrations were hand-drawn and the colours were edited in Photoshop. An overprint look was used to convey the contrast between beauty and horror. For example, in Rabbit Island, the author talks about Okunoshima, an island inhabited by over 900 rabbits which became a tourist attraction. People usually visit the island for its cute and fluffy inhabitants, but not many people know about its dark history - the rabbits were originally placed on the island by the Japanese Imperial Army to test the effectiveness of poisonous gas during WWII. This was the winning entry for The Adobe Best Designed Student Series by ABDA ‘23 (Australian Book Designers Association).
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