Designing the book cover: Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
Tigerman is the brilliant new novel by Nick Harkaway, author of The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker. Tigerman is about ex-colonies, superheroes and paternal love. Glenn O'Neill is the designer behind the cover of Tigerman. In this video we share some of his cover design process, starting with a finger painting inspired by a passage in the book:
'He plunged his hand into the black paint and across the face of the ballistic shield, fingers shaping the pigment. He slashed one way, then the other, and screamed, hammered his fist down onto the worktop. Paint splashed. His other hand delved into the yellow pot and clapped down dotting and slicing, and suddenly a tiger's face leaped from the flat surface, made real by the contrast. The eyes were luminous.'
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