Anthology Book Cover

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I was recommended by SIAMB!, a micro-press based in Tulsa, to design the cover of a queer anthology by Samantha Ryan for risograph printing. The book, titled Words My Friends Have Thrown Away, is a collection of flash fiction based on crowd-sourced words bound to queer identities.

Samantha and I brainstormed how to represent the book's theme through design, and what stood out was the idea of overlapping elements to form new colors in the way varied experiences form this community. After reviewing and tweaking a range of initial concepts, we landed on the final design emphasizing the word "friends" by creating a rainbow effect through overprinting, and using imagery of crumbled papers.

The back of the book for this project needed only a barcode, so I carried over the crumpled paper elements to balance out the remaining space.

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