Keep The Aspidistra Flying

Speculative cover design for Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell. The story concerns a copywriter who quits his respectable middle class job to pursue his passion of poetry, and his struggles to live up to his values as an artist and socialist. The design inspired by asemic writing, combined with the aspidistra plant form and the main character’s ties with words and writing.

April 2022, hand letterpress, digital collage