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…when I showed this cover to my friend Henrik Kubel, he was, to my dismay, not overwhelmed. He thought the spine was a joke, or an obvious stroke of supreme laziness (which it was). He finally said the design looked “Illustrator-y”. Whether true or not, there’s not a worse adjective he could have used — it went straight to the heart of my insecurity and I instantly knew I had to start again…

marian bantjes shares the process behind the design for the cover to her new book