Bird Books
I’ve taken the square, circle and triangle and used these shapes to illustrate five written classics of the feathered kind. Birds are used as strong symbols throughout literature. The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson - a novel about an ordinary Irish Catholic man who ascends the church hierarchy to become Cardinal in the early twentieth century and the Cardinal bird perched upon high and adorned with a Roman Catholic robe of red as though ordained a Bishop. The Crow by Ted Hughes - Hughes wrote Crow, mostly between 1966 and 1969, after a barren period following the death of Sylvia Plath. He looked back on the years of work on Crow as a time of imaginative freedom and creative energy, which he felt that he never subsequently recovered. He described Crow as his masterpiece - an epic folktale where the Crow took on more of a being. The Birds by Daphne du Maurier - Like a horror squadron of badness, a massive flock of birds descends upon a small Cornish seaside town. One interpretation of the story suggests that it reflects the British experience during the Second World War, evoking anxieties about the government's failure to protect their citizens and intrusions into domestic spaces by aggressive interlopers. Kes by Barry Hines - The Kestrel was named the Wing Hover’ by Victorians who marvelled at its flight behaviour while hunting. Billy Casper, a young working-class boy troubled at home and at school, finds and trains a kestrel whom he names "Kes”. Like a new ‘angel' of the north, Kes brought happiness, company, freedom and a sense of belonging for Billy. The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico - The Snow Goose is a simple, short written parable on the regenerative power of friendship and love, set against a backdrop of the horror of war. It documents the growth of a friendship between an artist living a solitary life in an abandoned lighthouse in the marshlands of Essex because of his disabilities, and a young local. In 1971 it was broadcast on BBC television featuring Richard Harris and Jenny Agutter. #bird #novel #design #graphicdesign #illustration #coverdesign #bookdesign #book