A four-title cover series commissioned by Vintage for the reissue of Margaret Atwood's early-1980s backlist: Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, Dancing Girls, and Bluebeard's Egg. The series was commissioned, delivered, and paid, but ultimately unpublished · the author took the reissue in a different direction.
Each cover uses typography as its entire visual system. Letterforms drop, tumble, and fragment across the composition · a typographic response to the tension running through Atwood's writing.
A consistent masthead treatment and shared composition hold the series together. Each cover carries its own palette and typographic character, so the four titles read as a set without repeating one another.
