Series of Pockets by
Lou de Jong

Fragments from The Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Second World War

Client: Staatsdrukkerij en Uitgeverij
Design and illustration: Jelle van der Toorn Vrijthoff

This series of paperbacks was characterized by applying a color gradient in the jackets’ backgrounds. I had airbrushed a gradient image from which lithographs of all the covers could be made by horizontally sliding the image for each take. As a result, the color gradient was also visible on the spine when the books stood next to each other on the shelf.