It Didn’t Start With You
Book Cover
non-fiction // science
The cover represents a cycle of rot: how unresolved trauma can be passed down through generations. Such trauma can manifest in many ways, but my cover focuses on the most common, agressiveness. The rot is suggested both through the colours of the apples and their degradation.
The family, the apple, gets eaten away by such behaviours, leading to its core. The screaming shapes within the apple bites are subtle and hard to see at first sight, similar to the way these problems can be ignored, until they force us to see them. Within the shadows we find two characters, who take turns yelling at each other, passing down their trauma.
To highlight these shapes, the apples would we embossed on the front cover.
The family, the apple, gets eaten away by such behaviours, leading to its core. The screaming shapes within the apple bites are subtle and hard to see at first sight, similar to the way these problems can be ignored, until they force us to see them. Within the shadows we find two characters, who take turns yelling at each other, passing down their trauma.
To highlight these shapes, the apples would we embossed on the front cover.
The cover on the right represents the initial colour scheme which was changed to better suit the scientific genre and give a more “clinical” vibe as this book is more than psychology, looking into DNA research and trauma.
Full cover for the observation of the details in the face shapes.
