Designing Dystopia

Book Design

For this project I designed a “series” of three books by author Ray Bradbury. The chosen books were Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Death is a Lonely Business. Though not a series of consecutive stories, these three books all contain similar themes of dystopian futures and the consequences of American arrogance and imperialism. For this cover series the goal was to portray these themes in a typographic manner with the large scale type giving a sense of impending doom and an overbearing government. This feeling is driven home by the regulatory label which contains the titles, author’s name, a short description, and a small icon which captures an element from each book.

This project was featured by BountyHunters, a company which highlights and promotes works of great design on social media and their website; linked HERE