Jogo da Cabra Cega - José Régio

  • Vanda Alexandre

Book Design for O Jogo da Cabra Cega by Portuguese author José Régio

This design has been developed, having the younger generations in mind, to appeal them to read classics; the colours were developed purposely to immediately capture the eye, but still keep a coherency with the overall colour scheme. The two squares on the back of the book match up with the development stages in emotional terms, as given out on the book (personal interpretation), and still, again, keeping up with the initially established colour scheme.

Final Colour Scheme

Concept: From a starting point, when choosing the steps you take, the decisions you make throughout your life accompanied by emotions, thoughts, will lead you to your self-development stage and that will reflect on everything else (the white curved lines with opposite directions, the orange circle - the middle shade - the middle stage - the development) and in the distance there's the end we all reach as individuals, in every single sense of the word (the red circle - the peek of life). The middle line in the word 'cega' ('blind') is to emphasise its actual meaning.
Second Design: Development

Final Colour Scheme

Concept: The idea behind the visual consisted on a hand-rendered experimentation with medium-thick paper, overlaying each of them, carefully and as organically as possible, in order to emphasise the windows you choose to look at, the decisions you choose to make, the steps you choose to take and how that will lead you to a conclusive state (red window - red square); the mid-stages of your development, of your life, accordingly to how you feel each day as you make all those actions throughout your life, and that is your fresh start every time (orange square); the edges of this shape not only connects with the literal shape of windows and its simplicity, but also to the opposite edges that connect in the centre, which leads to say the different directions, no matter how opposite, how different, will always get to a middle-ground, to an end.
Third Design: Development

Final Colour Scheme

Concept: Reflections of opposite sides of the spectrum, emotional and psychologically speaking. The lines presented with the shape are the steps taken to get to an end, a purpose. The shape itself resembles a triangle, and it was based on a pyramid study in regards to human psychology, and that has been worked out to emphasise the idea of 'opposite sides of the spectrum'. Each decision, each opinion, thought, emotion, will lead you to your development and end stage, which matches up equally to everyone else: death (hence the ends of the shape enthralling with one another).