Penguin
The uninhabitable Earth is a terrifying rundown of the horrors which await in an ever-warming world. Wallace- Wells draws from the latest research in climate science to give us a final warning. Runaway wildfires, submerged cities, polluted air and global pandemics – these and other climate-induced catastrophes not only await in the very near future but in some cases have already arrived. The book holds nothing back in shocking the reader through horrifying facts figures,
The concept behind the book cover was to create something which was as dark as the book itself. I wanted to ensure the cover was an illustration of a gloomy life which awaits us if we carry on how we are going, without living up to cliche’s of fire and ice caps which have already been overdone. The cover uses typography, featuring a dual typeface which looks at the duality between the beautiful serenity which nature can be, coupled with the daunting, scary side of nature which we are starting to bring out through climate change.
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As well as the book cover itself being a metaphor for nature and climate change, the book boasts a heat sensitive cover which changes to a thermal imagery when heated by touch, the idea is to allude to heat and global warming in a subtle way without using the cliche's of fire.
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