University project:
My brief was to create a new cover for The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, a well-known novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
This cover is a die-cut where the first image is a Japanese bird sitting in a blossom tree, connotating joy, spring and life. Underneath the cut and thought the square of a Japanese screen, the reader can make out a dark ghostly figure, representing the spirit in the well in the novel.
I have tried to recreate through this layering of meanings a third meaning pertinent to the story: a strange, surreal world where things are not what they seem.