The Perseverance

An unused design for Raymond Antrobus’ incredible poetry collection, The Perseverance. A particular favourite simply for the creative process. After the initial plonking and fiddling of text on the page, the words guided my hand and arranged themselves into a suggestion of a head-torso silhouette; chipping away at the letterforms, a more organic shape emerged and … well I rather like the result! Or maybe you see none of that and you have no idea what I’m blathering on about – it’s a kind of Rorschach thing.