BIRCHWOOD

BIRCHWOOD by Fumiko Hironaka.⁣ __________________⁣__________⁣⁣⁣____ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣I had the pleasure to design the cover art for Fumiko Hironaka's brand new crime novel BIRCHWOOD which is being published exclusively by Pelikhan Press. *⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ * Fumiko Hironaka is not a real person. Nor is BIRCHWOOD an actual book. Well, obviously there's no publishing house called Pelikhan Press either. ⁣

This project is a pure style exploration. When my wife told me that she would shoot an author's portrait in a wood of birches, the cover of this book (and it's title) came to my mind immediately and I simply had to launch Affinity Designer and do an illustration of the whole thing.⁣

Fonts used are Arca Majora 3 and Helvetica Neue.