These are a call out of some of my early favorites (which you'll see circled in the previous post). Read the alt text for my in-depth thoughts on each!
Carina Taylor 🌻
Midsummer Sisters by @nikismithcomics.bsky.social has been out for a little over a week now!! This was one of the last books I designed at Scholastic, and I want to give some flowers to this book. I adored it and process of this one so much. 🐴
Final (as submitted by me) --> early idea from Niki
Ultimately, none of those previous ones were the one that we ended up with! The team much preferred this one, and this was the direction shared with Niki! However..... this did end up being lucky for me because I'm really not sure how I would've adapted the other concepts into the MUCH longer title.
Carina Taylor 🌻
Carina Taylor 🌻
Redman Chicago
Everybody look at this Turkish comic about a little guy who loves his humongous wife
also as long as i'm talking about Whisper of the Heart, you might be surprised to learn it's based on a short manga from the late 80s. the ghibli film adds several elements to deepen the story but sticks surprisingly close to the source in a lot of places, giving it a very sweet shoujo heartbeat imo
Billy Bat sound effects thread! Brendon (@lettererbrendo.bsky.social) and I adore the way Urasawa draws sound effects, and are so excited to adapt the Billy Bat sound effects into English. For years, we'd talked about the quirks they have and how to replicate them. Here's a thread of comparisons!
Now that the direction was approved and we had our FINAL title. I further developed the rest of it based on the original concept, adding new glyphs, refining, and cleaning them up a bit. The nitty gritty details.
In general though this title developed very naturally! A pleasure to work on! 💖
As is typical for my title design process, there always ends up being a big gridded doc with alternate options. The concept of this cover was already pretty strong, so for this one I was just trying to attack that breezy coastal feeling with a couple different approaches.
