The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979); includes full spreads with jacket flap design, and standalone cover designs, that aim to capture the whimsy and heart of Adams’ timeless novel.

Stock photos color corrected and saturated,, lighting edited cropped and layered across jacket design panels. Road photo edited to remove sky and layered with the galaxy photo. Flying saucer photo edited to remove background, isolating the saucers, duplicating the image and layering on top of the sky/galaxy.

Douglas Adams photo edited for lighting/contrast.

Stock photos color corrected and saturated,, lighting edited cropped and layered across jacket design panels. Galaxy photo duplicated and arranged across jacket design. Flying saucer, tea cup, papers, brief case, thumb pointer photos edited to remove background,, and layered.

Hitchhiker book created through editing stock photos of cassette tape, buttons, control consuls and screen to take parts and layer them, along with addition of topography.

Douglas Adams photo edited for lighting/contrast.

Stock photos color corrected and saturated,, lighting edited cropped and layered across jacket design panels. Flying saucer photo edited to remove background, isolating the saucer and layering on top of the galaxy. Astronaut photo edited to remove background and patch gaps within the ladder image.

Stock photos color corrected and saturated,, lighting edited cropped and layered across jacket design panels. Road photo edited to remove sky and layered with the galaxy photo. Flying saucer photo edited to remove background, isolating the saucer and layering on top of the galaxy. Astronaut photo edited to remove background and patch gaps within the ladder image.

Stock photos color corrected and saturated,, lighting edited cropped and layered across jacket design panels. Flying saucer photo edited to remove background, isolating the saucer, duplicating and layering background. Photo of people on beach edited to remove background and lighting edited to achieve silhouette.

Background photo edited via smudging and mixing colors, to create swirling winds imagery. Beam from main saucer drawn separately, and added to composition.