The Robert Langdon book series is named after Robert Langdon, the protagonist of the novels by American author Dan Brown. I decided to re-imagine the book art work of this series using a modern approach and modern typography approach to give pure and direct expression to the contents of the novels.
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Using the Red and Black was inspired by the scene from the movie Angels & Demons that was released back in 2009. This scene is just so beautiful and intense. The typography is supposed to reflect the conflict between religion and science, today it’s easy to find situations where people perceive science and religion to conflict, but also easy to find scientists and theologians who believe they should exist independently, often because they join Vittoria in recognizing that science cannot provide much help with moral challenges. Some take this further and believe a creative mutual interaction can occur.
Yellow and Blue give an eye-catching aesthetics, the use of the pyramid is the symbol that Langdon figures out this final piece to the puzzle; he follows the Rose Line to La Pyramide Inversée, where he kneels to pray before the hidden sarcophagus of Mary Magdalene, as the Templar knights did before him.
I wanted to capture the original artwork for the book, the reason why I used circle typography inspired by The Masons symbol "The Eye of Providence (or the all-seeing eye of God)". Laus Deo!.
Using liquify tool on the text to capture The Map of Hell painting by Botticelli is one of the extant ninety-two drawings that were originally included in the illustrated manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy commissioned by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de'Medici.
The original front cover contains an image from Alamy of one of the spiral staircases in a tower in the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. I wanted to give the same feel of the original cover but with a modern take of the typography and collage art.
