Each title has its own bespoke end papers, picking up and repeating themes from within the stories. You should see my shirt collection.
Many of the titles went through multiple iterations. The emphasis was always on ideas: honing, abstracting and hybridizing.
Although completed digitally, the covers started out as rapid, hand drawn thumbnails in a sketchbook.
I was teaching a class in Concepts at the California College of Art, promoting the notion that our minds will give us as many ideas as we demand.
This is my account.
007 '24
James Bond book covers by Michael Gillette Icon set 007 Ian Fleming, Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.