Did someone say Graphic Design?! you got it sister! I managed to make it into the exclusive club that is the graphic design class taught by THE Jill Dallas; ruling with an iron fist and a merciless wit.
So anyway, for this project we had to design a book cover for 1 of 3 short stories which we drew from a hat. They were the Top 3 in some short story contest. The one I was assigned was about a man in the depression era going back home to his wife whom he divorced 5 months prior. After an awkward exchange of hellos, he is brought into their child's room where he sees their child laying in a cardboard box. He proceeds to close the box with a piece of string (because it was dead) and without saying a word, "his mind explodes into a pile of hay".
I had a lot of challenges on this piece, but I am happy with the photograph I managed to find of a small girl. I was trying to go for an unsettled feeling from the cover, but when you read the story and look back at the cover knowing that the little girl dies... Heartstrings obliterated.
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