Mindscape In Cyberspace

Book Cover: A Roof over Every Head [IRASEC]
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Based in Bangkok, the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC) is a member of the network of research centers of the French Foreign Ministry. They were looking for an overall visual identity for their next series of studies on different political and economical issues of South East Asia. They often used real-life photographs of objects from the region being written about, which failed to give any idea about the exact cartographic location to the global readers. They also needed an identity that stood out from conventional covers using photographs. I decided to use drawn illustrations for the covers for their publications.

For the cover of the book on housing policies of Singapore - “A Roof over Every Head”, I used the conventional idea of a metropolitan skyline with high-rises, tweaking it substantially it by imparting a hand-drawn texture suggesting the thickness and solidity of built form.

More details about this book can be viewed here