“Double Vision” Book Cover Design
Full spread of the cover image without text.
Process of painting the base before scanning & adding in details and text.
“Double Vision” is my first physical book that I had the opportunity to illustrate the cover of. The book centres around a collection of photography and illustrations with written responses between John Oughton, a writer and Nina West an Illustrator and photographer.
This cover is based around Nina who suffers from the loss of her vision due to an eye surgery she underwent and the responses John had to her artwork. The overall the book is about reflection, loss of vision and contemplation. For the typography I used the font optician sans and laid it out similar to an opticians eye chart. For my medium I used acrylic gouache on canvas paper that was scanned and touched up afterwards in procreate.
Full spread of the cover image with text.
Physical copy of final book cover.
“Stephanie was professional in establishing timelines and formats; creative in coming up with three different options for our book's cover; and efficient in finishing a cover design that more than satisfied our needs, and was a week ahead of schedule.”
- Testimony from John Oughton, Author
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