A garden in every pocket

A pocket-sized collection of poems with a cover that grows beyond its edges. For daydreamers, pavement botanists, and anyone who takes the scenic route.

The idea

The brief was simple: make a poetry collection feel like a small gift. I imagined a garden that could fit on a bookshelf but never quite stay inside it. Leaves spill across the border, and two curious birds make themselves at home.

Making it happen

The cover began as a collection of painted botanical shapes. I arranged them around generous, softly curved lettering, keeping the palette to cobalt, butter yellow, and tomato red. The repeated leaf motif carries through to the endpapers and chapter openers.