'Birdy' Book Cover
- 'Birdy' Book Cover Design
Harper Collins Publishers - This is a book jacket design proposition for the new edition of 'Birdy' by William Wharton.
Birdy tells a story of a young boy with a consuming obsession with birds and flight, whose wartime experiences tragically blur his perception of fantasy and reality. We meet this boy Birdy, in a mental institution, crouched on the floor, completely motionless, unable even to feed himself.
Birdy's childhood friend Al, also wounded by the war, is enlisted to rouse Birdy from his trance. As Al reflects on their childhood together, whilst desperately searching flickers of recognition in Birdy's eyes, he reveals a stirring narrative for unlikely friendship and consuming fixation.
In 1984, Birdy was turned into a film by Alan Parker, wich went on to win the Grand Prize of the jury at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. 
Description
This is a book jacket design proposition for the new edition of 'Birdy' by William Wharton.
Birdy tells a story of a young boy with a consuming obsession with birds and flight, whose wartime experiences tragically blur his perception of fantasy and reality. We meet this boy Birdy, in a mental institution, crouched on the floor, completely motionless, unable even to feed himself.
Birdy's childhood friend Al, also wounded by the war, is enlisted to rouse Birdy from his trance. As Al reflects on their childhood together, whilst desperately searching flickers of recognition in Birdy's eyes, he reveals a stirring narrative for unlikely friendship and consuming fixation.
In 1984, Birdy was turned into a film by Alan Parker, wich went on to win the Grand Prize of the jury at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
Birdy tells a story of a young boy with a consuming obsession with birds and flight, whose wartime experiences tragically blur his perception of fantasy and reality. We meet this boy Birdy, in a mental institution, crouched on the floor, completely motionless, unable even to feed himself.
Birdy's childhood friend Al, also wounded by the war, is enlisted to rouse Birdy from his trance. As Al reflects on their childhood together, whilst desperately searching flickers of recognition in Birdy's eyes, he reveals a stirring narrative for unlikely friendship and consuming fixation.
In 1984, Birdy was turned into a film by Alan Parker, wich went on to win the Grand Prize of the jury at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
Fields
Graphic Design, Editorial Design, Photography
Date
2012
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