Taking from the themes and imagery from the selected texts, my main goal was to accurately represent and advertise these classics to both those that are familiar and those that have never had the chance to read the original books.
For this project, it was not necessary to read the entirety of the texts... however, because I can't resist a challenge like that and also since I was curious enough, I procured the texts and gave them a swift read to fully immerse myself in the content. After having read all the books, of whom were chosen due to their tangential relation to the central themes of The Rebel, I began sketching designs based off of the main ideas presented in each novel.
The research phase of each project is what wholly informs the resulting ideas that come from it. Inadequate research will lead to equally inadequate development.
Over the course of my last semester at UD, I had been working on a passion project, taking major inspiration from Albert Camus' The Rebel. This essay, initially brought to my attention from an excellent course in existentialist philosophy, embodied so much of what I was previously unable to define in my own life. Having something to ground this ideological exploration helped me contend with the major contradictions that had created a dense fog occluding what it was I was even working towards in life. It is for this reason that I chose to connect the central tenants of The Rebel with that of the two other texts I chose to design covers for.
