Anna and Elena Balbusso Twins
Shannon Associates New York
The Great Gatsby luxury edition. February 2021. We created the design of the slipcase, the cover art and the interior illustrations for the luxury edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald part of the Illuminated Editions, Beehive Books 2022. The book is an oversized 9x12" hardcover edition, cloth-bound in sewn signatures, and enclosed in an elaborately embossed and debossed die-cut slipcase. The 1925 Fitzgerald's story is set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City. It depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. Gouache, pen, pencil, digital
The Great Gatsby