Zdarzyło się w Polsce (Once upon a time in Poland)
Wydawnictwo Literatura 2016 - 2018
Wydawnictwo Literatura asked me to not only provide the illustrations for all the five books in the series, but also to design the series as a whole. One element that had to be present on almost every page was a timeline - a very useful device for the young readers to visualise all the historical events taking place in every book. Another recurring theme is the font I have used throughout the whole series: Metamorphous, a mix of different historical letter shapes, that goes very well with the other historic fonts used in each of the books. Also present in the background on each cover is the Polish eagle, though each time in a historically appropriate variant.
Each of the books had a cover of a different shade of red - from more orangey hues through vermillion to purple.
On the spine of each tome was drawn a part of the eagle which is the contemporary Polish emblem, visible at last if you have the whole 5 tomes :-)
On the front cover, the person peeking out from behind the curtain covers most of the landscape in the background. On the back cover you can see this landscape - but by night...
The empty landscape from early medieval Poland ;-)
Poland of the late middle ages and renaissance - by night...
It's getting dramatic... Polish steppes of the 17th century after nightfall...
A typical Polish manor house of the 19th century by night...
Night in a modern Polish city
Spreads featuring the timeline, illustrations and typographic theme of each of the books.
These are a sample of what the endpaper in each of the books looks like...
