The new book cover of Arancia Meccanica (A clockwork orange)

by Anthony Burgess, published by Einaudi Editore.

I wanted an ultra-violent illustration with the iconic eye of Alex

and his eyelashes that become black tears.⁣
Motion design by Salvatore Illeggittimo

When the publisher asked me to think about a cover for this famous story I immediately thought about the eye of Alex but in the same time I wanted to design something new.

So I had the idea of mixing it with the knife, designing a double reading illustration.

I added the black drops as eyelashes.

This is the final result.

Photographs by Antonio Alaimo

I loved to work on such a cool project. I hope that you like it!