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Invisible Cities ✨

 Invisible Cities

“When you are in the heart of Anastasia one morning your desires waken all at once and surround you ... your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave.”
— Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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role: graphic designer

the ask: design a cover for Italo CAlvino’s book invisible cities based on the description of one of its cities.

 
As a representation of the pleasure-filled but meaningless city of Anastasia, I created a minimalist sinkhole that seems iridescent on top but is actually a bottomless pit.

As a representation of the pleasure-filled but meaningless city of Anastasia, I created a minimalist sinkhole that seems iridescent on top but is actually a bottomless pit.