This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar’s Tale

• Prize
  Winner in Other books / Books
• Lead
  Anna Jordan
• Client
  Open Letter Books

Book cover. Subimal Misra—anarchist, activist, anti-establishment, experimental anti-writer—is one of India's greatest living writers. My cover design references the anarchist spirit and collage-like structure of the book, and the structural concept of two novels in one. The title is duplicated as if two paragraphs are intersecting, one clear and the other flipped and grungy. The two voices run parallel to each other and collide in places, sometimes becoming obscured. The texture is made by hand: this cover is a photograph of an original collage, not a Photoshop effect.

Anna Jordan designs book covers and other graphic objects from her studio in Rochester, New York, USA. Her award-winning artwork explores the intersection of typography and materials.