These Dune Trilogy book covers were a project assigned to me in college. I have a deep fascination for the works of Frank Herbert, especially the Dune saga. When this was assigned, Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune had recently come out in theaters so it was fresh in my mind. It was immediately a prime candidate for a book I would really like to re-illustrate the covers of. I tried to make a different take on the standard Dune book covers while also making it my own. The display title text, for example, is mostly always in all-capital letters historically, so I wanted to try doing it in all lower case. Instead of a seventies-groovy-science fiction aesthetic I wanted to capture a more modern, sleeker atmosphere while still maintaining the vastness and scale of Dune. Over all I am very satisfied with the end product.
Max Westrum 