Mr Griffin: Editorial design, book covers for Mrs Danvers collection.
2019/25
MisterGriffin—an independent publishing house from the north of Spain. They wanted covers for Mrs Danvers, a collection brilliantly curated by my brother Yago, that could carry the weight of good writing. Something honest, warm, unexpected.
They understand books are objects people live with. Things you carry, leave on tables, lend to friends. Literature that feels like finding a letter meant for you.
For Ainhoa Rebolledo's "Atractiva jugada perdedora" Hands holding a book while a birdcage replaces the head—perfect. The anxiety of anticipating heartbreak, the impossibility of escaping your own wiring. That red typography doubles down on the urgency. You're trapped in your own story, reading it as you live it. The cage is locked from the inside.
"Queens for the words. Xoana Elias's dreamy collages for everything else. Sometimes the best systems are the ones you can explain in one breath."
For Macarena Trigo's "Como puedo" Ochre for memories. A woman's silhouette tending to her own head like a garden—that's the whole metaphor right there. Against all that white, the image holds its ground. The vastness preserves the integrity of the idea: you can cultivate yourself, but you're still alone with the work.
For Javier Echalecu's "Sin noticias del mundo animal" Green like oxidized copper on cathedral domes—that particular patina of time and weather. Fifty-five pieces about wanting to be anywhere but here. The figure walking through that oval portal isn't escaping, they're migrating. Following that old curse Cernuda talked about: the desire to change places. Against all that white, the wandering becomes the point. Not stories with endings, but departures that keep departing.