UK-based designer Andrew Davidson has redesigned the covers of the adult editions of the ‘Harry Potter’ novels.
Commissioned by Bloomsbury, Davidson created the covers by “printing hand crafted wood engravings on nine by seven-inch English boxwood onto Japanese paper”.
The project took about two and a half months to compete and each cover represents a key scene or setting from the novel.
“I wanted them to look as if they had come straight from the pages of a book taken from the library at Hogwarts,” Davidson said. “Each image aims to capture the spirit and setting of each book—as the stories become darker, so do the engravings. There are also hidden clues in each of the illustrations to look out for.”
[via Creative Review]