Cover of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability

I have posted below the cover that I designed for The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, with some valuable feedback from Amandine Catala, Gen Eickers, Ada Jaarsma, Corinne Lajoie, and Melinda Hall.

The design of the cover is intentional in a variety of ways: the lettering is in a sans serif font and in sharp contrast to the background in order to maximize the cover’s accessibility to a range of disabled people. A description of the cover is copied below. A cover description will appear inside the book’s cover, on the book’s webpage at Bloomsbury, and in all promotional materials for the book, where possible.

Description of the book’s cover: The book’s title appears on two lines across the top of the cover which is a salmon tone. The names of the editor and the author of the foreword appear in white letters at the bottom of the book. The publisher’s name is printed along the right side in white letters. At the centre, a vertical white rectangle is the background for a sculpture by fibre artist Judith Scott. The sculpture combines layers of shiny yarn in various colours including orange, pink, brown, and rust woven vertically on a large cylinder and horizontally around a smaller cylinder, as well as blue yarn woven around a protruding piece at the bottom of the sculpture. The sculpture seems to represent a body and head of a being sitting down, a being with one appendage, a fat person, or a little person.

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