MEN WITHOUT WOMEN - Haruki Murakami
Dreams are the kinds of things you can … borrow and lend out.
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. There are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all.
I worked up a series of visuals that took as their theme the idea of isolation. I was searching for an image that responded emotionally to the idea of loneliness.
The approved cover features a moon, that appears in the stories and very neatly provides a circle within the design. Circles are a consistent feature of our Murakami covers. The background uses the work of Kate Castelli, a Boston-based artist working in printmaking and book arts. Much of her artwork uses painted or carved lines. Castelli prefers using antique book pages to print on, which she believes has a subtlety and a story that new paper lacks.
