I was SO excited when the one and only A.K. Mulford reached out to me wanting to do a special edition omnibus of her Okrith novellas.
Honestly, I’m in my happy place whenever I get to work with shiny things (gold foil, I’m talking about you). ✨ But this project also involved a custom dust jacket AND a map! 🗺️ Talk about dreamy.
After reading the novellas, (which are great, BTW), these were the initial concepts I sent. We agreed that the first design was the best for the jacket and that the second would work perfectly for the case binding.
I cleaned up the lettering for the title and drew out the design in black and white to get the contrast right.
The colours for this project were so fun! A purple forest at night with pink mushrooms and leaves faintly glowing in the moonlight? Yes, please!
We kept the title lettering the same on the case binding for consistency.
And I’m always over the moon when I get to design a fantasy map! I love A.K’s imaginative place names and the fact that there are a variety of climates within her world. In the south we have palm trees and desert. In the north there are mountains, swamps and pine forests. And when there’s an ocean you know there’ll be some fantastical sea creatures! Can you spot them?
And here’s the finished jacket, featured on A.K’s Instagram.
And the foiled case binding in all its shiny glory. Yes, I’m a magpie. Gold foil is my greatest weakness.
And the map endpapers! I love endpapers nearly as much as I love foil.
This special edition omnibus is only available at A.K’s in-person signing events (in Australia) or exclusively on her Patreon.
