Perfume breif

This was a quick turn around brief to help me focus on my editorial and layout design with text. I chose this brief as it would allow me to use indesign and develop these software skills and combine both my hand rendered image style with a big body of text.

It was to design a jacket cover for Patrick Suskinds Perfume. I have read the book and seen the film and the book is by far much more disturbing and graphic. I wanted to focus on a design for the jacket which was not obvious following the normal trends and cover designs for past penguin books which focus on the nose for the sense of smell and the curves of a woman's body. i wanted to represent the book a different way, nitty and gritty conveys the greed and overwhelming desire and need to have this perfume.



I started out on the theme of greed and desperataion by taking a series of photos of hands against a white backdrop grabbing and reaching out - as though for the perfume. I then layered them over one another to convey the rush, and pressure of the peoples desire for grab hold and have the perfume.