Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Josh Frederick

Josh Frederick

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Design By: Josh Frederick

I am a graphic designer from Greenville, SC, working in the textbook publishing industry. I spend my time between books, Netflix, and friends. Coffee and good music are usually always involved.

 

Design By: Josh Frederick

I am a graphic designer from Greenville, SC, working in the textbook publishing industry. I spend my time between books, Netflix, and friends. Coffee and good music are usually always involved.

 

Artist Statement

This cover is part of a series using silhouettes as a main theme. I chose to use silhouettes as a uniting theme because of their historical use in posters, as well as the fact that it makes for strong imagery and lends itself to be easily recognized. I started off with the basic silhouette of the main character from Jekyll & Hyde and after a thematic analysis of the work itself I started to incorporate visual cues that symbolised the various themes of the work. For example, I split the silhouette of Jekyll/Hyde into two parts. White is used to represent the purity of Jekyll and I made it the front half because that is the face people saw in public. The hidden part is the part that was Hyde, shown in a blood red. This imagery is also incorporated into the title, furthering the image of two polar opposites, the evil and the good. — Josh Frederick