Ninth Letter —
Interior Spread Design
Overview
Designed a concept-driven interior spread for William Wall’s What Slim Boy Oh Pyrrha, translating the story’s psychological unraveling into a visceral, tactile reading experience.
Challenge
How do you embody mental and physical deterioration on the page without sacrificing literary clarity? The design needed to feel visceral and destabilizing, yet remain controlled enough to support long-form reading.
Solution
Built a raw, immersive visual language that mirrors the story’s unraveling psyche. Distressed imagery and hand lettering embedded with actual mud introduced authentic battlefield texture, while restrained typographic structure grounded the chaos.
The result is a concept-driven editorial experience where material, form, and narrative collapse into one another—amplifying the emotional weight of the story rather than merely illustrating it.
Selected for CMYK Magazine’s emerging talent portfolio.
Scope & Capabilities
Editorial design / concept development / art direction / experimental typography /
mixed-media techniques / narrative visualization / material exploration / publication layout / print production