The making of the cover for How to Solve Almost Any Problem by Alan Barker

Coming up with an idea of an airplane and showing it to the client.

The client likes it. Making a sketch stylizing it as a gouache drawing.

Client: I don’t like the shades and that it all became blurry.

Going back to the first sketch. Leaving the gouache aside and deciding to take a photo of the airplane.

The client approves the approach. Typesetting the cover.