Faber & Faber + Wonderbly
Hardback x 10, 32pp.
In a collaboration between traditional publishing titan Faber and award-winning start-up Wonderbly, we created a new brand, identity and e-commerce website for a collection of personalised poetry gift books.
These books are dynamically generated from Faber’s rights-managed poetry database, meaning the book design needed to be responsive to unique user inputs. Working across three teams — and guiding creative directors, producers, editors and web developers — I drove the design and creative for the new brand as well as ten cover-to-cover book designs.
These ten designs needed to represent many different types of customers, gifting occasions and emotional tone from the celebratory to the somber. Each book carries a design theme from the cover’s quarterbind through the front matter of the inside pages and reinforces the customer’s chosen title in the footer of each page.
Creative Director Donna Payne
Producer Jonathan Attenborough
Editor Steve King
Art direction and design Heather Ryerson
# art direction, cover design, page designm, typesetting and responsive front-end design coding
