Oscar Wilde Cover: Week 4

This book cover was designed by Stefanie Posavec. The illustration is very striking but the type is still very beautiful without competing with the illustration. The type is a combination of sans serif and a hand-done-looking script. This is a paperback cover for Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and the intended audience is anyone who would like to read this classic, whether for school or leisure. The thin, geometric sans serif creates easy and instant recognition of Wilde's work, while being very stylish and modern, like Wilde was in his day. The script title hints at Victorian hand-written letters. The title fills the space behind the young man, creating space between the illustration and the type. It looks a bit like he is turning away from the type, like how Dorian turns away from his portrait in the book. This strong conceptual connection is inspiring and is a great example of creative typography for my own work.