by Haruki Murakami
Graphic Design
Visual Art Direction
Illustration
In this piece, I wanted to rescue the original proposal from the first Japanese edition, which divided the novel into three volumes, as well as the language. To generate an aesthetic unity of the whole, I created a symbolic gradient,
which I divided into three parts, one per volume. In this way, the cover functions as a common thread, creating continuity, order, and a single timeline and narrative, inspired by the light stattesin a day, generaing an aura that visually conveys the magical realm that surrounds the author’s work. The ‘insert’ format, inspired by scrolls and newspapers, creates an accumulation of pages that allow us to see the multitude of narrative layers, both through the accumulation of pages and the color coding incorporated into the borders. Finally, the graphics play withnI unravel the story in the guts through typographic differentiation, as well as changing the grid of some text fragments to differentiate media, voices, and times, and establish internal connections.
Paula Lavandera