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Women have been told that road trips and psychedelic trips are too dangerous, which is probably why both have been mostly a guy thing. In Higher Love, Anne Friedman lives them out very personally, and takes us along with her. We discover why such adventures are actually safer than a 'feminine' trip, and our world expands right along with hers.”
Gloria Steinem
Jordan McQueen (via Unsplash)
Design Elements
The cover design leveraged exclusively open-source elements, protecting Anne from any licensing fees as a self-publisher. Using the Adobe Suite, I edited the photos heavily to achieve the desired effect. Small tweaks to tracking for the title and leading for the body elevated the highly-accessible Google Fonts.
Aldebaran S (via Unsplash)
Photography by Danielle Flowers @amberirisphotography
Higher Love’s cover captures the electric dreaminess of psychedelics, as experienced through the female gaze.
It was important to Anne that the book’s cover feel incredibly feminine and sensual while reflecting the maturity of a woman beyond her 20’s. She preferred that the book’s cover feel personal and unique, rather than commercial. There’s a beautiful scene in the memoir where Anne, fueled by a micro-turned-macro dose of LSD, is immensely moved by the rugged, life-giving nature of a ragged palm, so different from the “manicured, domesticated, constrained” existence she’d desired for her own body.
It was this scene specifically that influenced the cover, the view of a woman looking up at melting palm fronds against a subtly celestial sky.
DM Serif Text (Title), Urbanist (Body)
Custom color palette
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Women have been told that road trips and psychedelic trips are too dangerous, which is probably why both have been mostly a guy thing. In Higher Love, Anne Friedman lives them out very personally, and takes us along with her. We discover why such adventures are actually safer than a 'feminine' trip, and our world expands right along with hers.”
Gloria Steinem
Jordan McQueen (via Unsplash)
Design Elements
The cover design leveraged exclusively open-source elements, protecting Anne from any licensing fees as a self-publisher. Using the Adobe Suite, I edited the photos heavily to achieve the desired effect. Small tweaks to tracking for the title and leading for the body elevated the highly-accessible Google Fonts.
Aldebaran S (via Unsplash)
Photography by Danielle Flowers @amberirisphotography
Higher Love’s cover captures the electric dreaminess of psychedelics, as experienced through the female gaze.
It was important to Anne that the book’s cover feel incredibly feminine and sensual while reflecting the maturity of a woman beyond her 20’s. She preferred that the book’s cover feel personal and unique, rather than commercial. There’s a beautiful scene in the memoir where Anne, fueled by a micro-turned-macro dose of LSD, is immensely moved by the rugged, life-giving nature of a ragged palm, so different from the “manicured, domesticated, constrained” existence she’d desired for her own body.
It was this scene specifically that influenced the cover, the view of a woman looking up at melting palm fronds against a subtly celestial sky.
DM Serif Text (Title), Urbanist (Body)