Atul Gawande: Being Mortal

Atul Gawande: Being Mortal

Our challenge in designing the cover for Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal was to please the publisher.

The book explores how the end of life might be with infused with grace. We explored more than a dozen design directions … until Gawande’s brilliant agent suggested a single blade of grass. We recommended including a quotation from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass to reinforce the connection.