Back cover and design pages I created for Ronin Island volumes 1-3,
original series published by BOOM! Studios.
Written by Greg Pak Illustrated by Giannis Milonogiannis
Colored by Irma Kniivla Letters by Simon Bowland
Logo design by Michelle Ankley Collection design by Marie Krupina
Ronin Island is set in 19th century Asia on a secret island where survivors and refugees from Japan, Korea, and China try to build a new community after mysterious attack completely destroys their native land.
Ronin Island is a 12-issue series published in 3 volumes as a collection. I designed each volume following the same formula, changing only a complimentary color and line art elements. It created visual consistency and matched the symbolism of unity of 3 different nations. In order to add depth to the dark back covers and emphasize complimentary colors without overpowering them I used blind spot gloss. It also makes the book look more modern even while using the rough paper textures.
To match the books setting, I heavily used old paper texture, kanji version of the logo, and a colorful line art from the series. Center aligned text and images, and almost transparent kanji made every design page look like ancient scrolls.
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