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BEING JOHN

MALKOVICH JACKET

A mockup of the redone book jacket for "Being John Malkovich" (1999), completed in August 2018.

"Being John Malkovich" Book Jacket

I made the concept more interesting by having the whole image take up the entire cover. This idea came from Chip Kidd’s jacket for “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” by Haruki Murakami, where Kidd was in a similar situation where he tried to make an obvious choice for a book jacket more interesting.

A stock image of an open book on top of a few more books on a table, possibly in a library. From Envato.

As the years passed, I felt that the book jacket could have been improved upon and considered redoing it. I tried to think of different ideas, but I always returned to the giant golden puppet controllers. I decided to go with them, as I wasn’t bound by the rules of the school assignment now, but decided to add a twist to them. On the new jacket, they would appear to float above the reader with puppet strings similar to UFO tractor beams coming down, appearing to violate the reader’s personal space.

Chip Kidd's jacket for "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" at the top, with the whole photograph of the wind-up bird taking up the whole spread. At the bottom are sketches for the giant X on the new cover, a few of which unintentionally resemble fidget spinners.

I made the golden X on the cover in Photoshop

The final mockup of the front of the jacket.

A mockup of the back of the jacket featuring snippets from actual film critic reviews, including Roger Ebert.

The original school assignment done in 2014 on the left versus the improved version done in August 2018 on the right.

A stock image of people chatting in a library. From Envato.

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