This project is a series of reimagined book covers for three novels by Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, and The City and Its Uncertain Walls. Through this series, I wanted to explore how book cover design can translate psychological and symbolic narratives into a visual language.

Although each novel tells a different story, I was drawn to the recurring emotional states that run through Murakami’s work: loneliness, memory, loss, unstable identity, and the tension between reality and inner worlds. In response to these themes, I developed each cover around a central symbolic image — the well, the station and railway, and the city wall and shadow — allowing each book to retain its own atmosphere while still belonging to a coherent visual series.

Visually, I wanted the covers to feel restrained, quiet, and slightly uncanny, reflecting the emotional distance and ambiguity within the texts. By combining graphic composition, symbolic imagery, and a limited colour palette, I aimed to create a set of covers that not only represent the narratives of the novels, but also evoke the emotional and psychological spaces they open up for the reader.