My next brief is to redesign a dust jacket book cover for a reissue in hardback of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks. This is a book of compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions that have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people–from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams syndrome who are hypermusical from birth; from people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds for everything but music.

I started by researching book cover designs.

The Revolution of Little Girls

Designed by Barbara De Wilde

Coney Island of The Mind

Designed by Ben Wiseman

Fata Morgana

Designed by Herman Houbrechts

Jane Eyre

Designed by Megan Wilson

The Dressmakers Child

Designed by Claire Coles

Blood Music

Designed by Emma Wallace

The Golden Road

Designed by Darren Hagger

The Long Road of The Junk Mailer

Designed by Gray318