'Metamorphosis' details the story of Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman who wakes up one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a large insect. The aim of this project was to reimagine of the story through it's opening and closing chapters, intending to bring the novel to a new audience, specifically teenagers and young adults.
Based on visual references within the text, such as ‘dirty,’ ‘messy’ and ‘trails of grime,’ I employed an experimental, gritty, ‘anti-design’ approach inspired by Swiss Grit graphic designers, in order to reflect the atmosphere of the story and relate to the ‘monstrous’ and ‘dirty’ references to the insect. Mud and brown paint textures are showing through paragraphs of text.
The book itself is hand bound with coptic stitching in two sections, each with three stitches. All six threads relate to the six legs of the insect. It is also enveloped in a fabric sleeve with six strings to fasten (reference to six legs of the insect).
