This project was to take a short story and design it from layout to physical construction. The story itself tells the tale of a man who becomes fascinated with the recent headline that a local elephant had mysteriously vanished overnight. The mysterious yet eerily vacant feel of the story inspired me to design a minimalistic design that calls to mind the dream-like quality of Murakami’s writing. A traditional type layout with generous use of white space allows the hand drawn illustrations printed on vellum paper to blend together. The book was bound by hand at a small size as it would be easy to pick up quickly read...or lose.