BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S

PUBLISHING

INSTRUCTOR:
Paul Kepple

Before it was the film of Audrey Hepburn’s most famous role, or a song by Deep Blue Something, Breakfast at Tiffany’s was simply a classic American novella by Truman Capote. Capote’s story follows the fictional character Miss Holiday Golightly, the iconic pioneer of the “Manic Pixie Dreamgirl” archetype.

For the first half of this project, I typeset excerpts from the story into 12 spreads, and accompanied them with original illustrations in a style I developed for the book. I also designed endpapers, a book cover, and all faces of the book jacket. I printed these designs and compiled all the components into a high-fidelity prototype of my publication using the Coptic-stitch book-binding technique.

Book Jacket

Binding and Endpapers

Spreads

Flat image of spread with text and illustration of apartment living room.

photograph of spread with text and illustration of apartment living room

photograph of spread with text and illustration of apartment building's mail room

Flat image of spread with text and illustration of scraps of trash

photograph of spread with text and illustration of scraps of trash

Flat image of spread with text and illustration of gift basket with close-up view of apology note

Flat image of spread with text and illustration of bookshelf

photograph of spread with only text, beautifully typeset into two columns per page.

photograph of spread with text and full illustration of apartment buildings. Two girls are sitting on the fire escape of one of the buildings.

Flat image of spread with text and illustration of apartment building's mail room, after time has passed.

photograph of spread with text and spot illustration showing close-up of girls on fire escape from previous spread

photograph of spread with text and illustration of antique storefront, with a birdcage displayed in the window.

Flat image of spread with text and illustration of messy apartment with bookshelves in disarray.

photograph of spread with text and illustration of framed relics.

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