For the cover of this imaginary book, the third volume in an imaginary series of design manuals, I reimagined Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man as the Android mascot thingy with splayed out limbs. And because I did not know how to make vector drawings back then, I had to create it out of circles and rectangles added to each other in strategic combinations.
At the time, after having graduated from the very first batch of the book design course at the Seagull School of Publishing, I was floundering to find my own style. This was when Sunandini Banerjee, who had almost single handedly taught the entire course that year, being also the absolutely fantastic person she is, handed me a sheaf of mock briefs to help, so I could practice visualising covers. But not just that, she then painstakingly went over the faltering drafts that I put together and sent her, writing back with plenty of encouragement and a brilliant list of tweaks that could totally transform the covers. This is a rare, approved almost as is, fake cover from this period.
