Shaking Words

This project was to design an intro page for a book review. The book I chose to focus on is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

I created the background image by hand cutting white and red paper and then layering them to achieve the desired affect. I then used photoshop to clean up the image before adding the different text elements on top.

The book is about a little German girl living in Nazi Germany, and her passion for reading, even despite that being a dangerous passion at the time. The story is told from the perspective of “Death”, who acts as the narrator, which is why I chose to cut the top layer in the shape of the grim reaper. It visually represents how when you read the book, you are seeing the story through Death’s “eyes” (or from his perspective, if you’d rather).