Evan McVey / Independent Designer / Greater Boston

Evan McVey / Independent Designer / Greater Boston

Endurance

Endurance

Speculative jacket design for the story of Shackleton's Antarctic expedition

With most editions leaning on the famous nighttime photograph of the ship lit up against the dark, I wanted to go the opposite direction: a frozen-textured daytime image that conjures adventure and heroism. The title treatment echoes the ship's own nameplate, a beveled brass look accented with a nautical star, with the letters worn and damaged to suggest survival and the passage of time.