Transformation
A series of dust jacket designs for a themed gift set, featuring literary classics that explore the overarching themes of transformation and the duality of man.
Each cover incorporates food-related imagery that symbolizes the pivotal moments of transformation within the stories. As readers journey through these works, their understanding of the dust jacket designs evolves—just as the protagonists undergo profound changes themselves.
Year: 2022
Duration: 3 weeks
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside of me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
— From “The Metamorphosis”
“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose?”
— From The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine.”
— From Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde