The Handmaid’s Tale

A new cover for The Handmaid’s Tale, built on its core: a regime that assigns roles, erases names and controls women’s bodies and voices.

I designed the cover and drew the illustration, a stark, symbolic image about control and identity.

Categories
Book cover · Illustration
Place
Naples
Year
2021
The cover of The Handmaid’s Tale on a dark bookshelf.
The cover: a woman in a red cloak with dark hands reaching for her, on black.
Two copies of the book, cover and spine, on red spray paint.
The back cover, with a red hand, on red spray paint.
The whole jacket, front, spine and back, on red spray paint.

Credits

Onofrio Passariello
Illustration & cover design
Chiara Del Luongo
Art direction

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