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the Roberto Bolaño Collection

Open Books (South Korea) commissioned me to design thethe Roberto Bolaño Collection. The project covered the collection's visual identity and the concept for each front and back cover.

The challenge: a visual identity of its own for the collection, with a graphic impact in line with Bolaño's writing.

The process: I started by studying the author's existing iconography and reading his books closely, and I built the collection around the idea of the expanded image. The front cover is not a separate piece: when the book is opened flat, the back cover illustration continues the front and adds a narrative twist to the original idea. A crescent moon runs through the whole collection as a common thread.

For *2666*, a novel centered on the murders of women in Santa Teresa, the front cover shows a woman sleeping on a galloping horse. Opened flat, the back cover reveals that the horse's hindquarters are  Death itself, brandishing its scythe. ( Note-on-the-process)