Projects
The white "Zase" cover by Maruška Padar, with small line drawings, a heart and a sun, on a second copy.
The book opened flat, with "Zase" on the front cover and an upside-down "Zate" on the back.
An open spread: a short Slovene poem on the left, a line drawing of two figures and a moon on the right.
A navy spread where two white line-drawn faces meet, "Zase." on one page and "Zate." upside down.

Zase in zate

2024
Book design, Editorial design, Illustrations, Art direction
Poetry • Read from both sides

A poetry book that's read from both sides, meeting somewhere in the middle. Just like the poems themselves.

I designed the entire visual identity of the book—from the layout and typography to a series of hand-drawn illustrations that quietly live between the verses. The goal wasn't to compete with the poetry, but to give it room to breathe.

Working on this project slowed me down in the best possible way. Somewhere between laying out pages and reading the same poems over and over, they started reading me back.

Still one of the projects that's closest to my heart.

I made this during a pretty rough chapter of my life. Turns out spending months with poetry is surprisingly therapeutic.