Jacket design
by Derek
Thornton/Faceout Studio
Imagery:
Arcangel and Shutterstock
Pegasus
Books
Faceout
Studio designer Derek Thornton went for a very different feel for his
wonderfully tactile cover.
“This
cover was deeply inspired by scenes and elements in the story. When I started
designing we decided we wanted this cover to be dramatic, atmospheric and
elegant. Even though this cover seems to be made of one dramatic image, it’s
actually a composite of multiple images: a handmade snow texture, an image of
highlands, the circle art that interacts with the figure, and the hooded figure
of course. The final book was finished with a rounded emboss on the type, and
pearlescent shimmering stock creating a beautiful final printed package.”
Faceout
Studio has designed numerous covers across genres, producing striking jackets
for everything from cookbooks to lit fic as well as genre covers including the
50th anniversary edition of Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby, Sebastian
Fitzek’s The Nightwalker, Gard Ven’s Hell is Open, Matt Goldman’s Gone to Dust, Claudia Gray’s Defy the Stars, Adam Mitzner’s Dead Certain, and Luca Veste’s Dead Gone.
Outside of
design Derek loves spending time with his wife and three kids, playing sub-genres
of metal on his seven-string guitar, and dreaming of future tattoo endeavors.
