Blind Trust is a political thriller by California Senator Barbara Boxer. It tells the fictional story of a politician whose enemies try to destroy her career by attacking her character with a well-planted financial scandal.
Although the book does have secret agents, ties with the Middle East and physical danger for her staff, it is not in itself a violent or blood story. That’s why none of the design concepts below worked. They were too violent. These sketches are specially creepy given that I used a real politician’s portrait.
The sketch covers below show some of the final concepts we were considering. The middle two covers are by Allison Weiner. I wrote a little bit about this here.
It was an interesting and long process to find just the right visual metaphor.
