Do you believe in life after love?
The end––that protracted period of angst when love runs out––is an integral part of a relationship, one that reflects and refracts how it started, too. Why are we so afraid to say out loud that “forever” rarely is?
It Was Over When You Said What is a book and a website that collects the work of 13 writers who furrow the texture of the months, days, and heartbeats when they realized they were over.
The design tries to reflect this messy and confusing period by drawing inspiration from the body. Starting with the naked clingy embrace on the front cover, overlaid bya vegetable dye pattern that made to resemble vessels and veins criss-crossing underneath the skin. The book then opens up to a risograph printed interior where big brush strokes in red and blue overlap and intersect the text as the reader is taken from one break-up to another. Mimicing a heartbeat taking the oxygen in the texts and then leaving them, blue.
The end––that protracted period of angst when love runs out––is an integral part of a relationship, one that reflects and refracts how it started, too. Why are we so afraid to say out loud that “forever” rarely is?
It Was Over When You Said What is a book and a website that collects the work of 13 writers who furrow the texture of the months, days, and heartbeats when they realized they were over.
The design tries to reflect this messy and confusing period by drawing inspiration from the body. Starting with the naked clingy embrace on the front cover, overlaid bya vegetable dye pattern that made to resemble vessels and veins criss-crossing underneath the skin. The book then opens up to a risograph printed interior where big brush strokes in red and blue overlap and intersect the text as the reader is taken from one break-up to another. Mimicing a heartbeat taking the oxygen in the texts and then leaving them, blue.