For the 35th annual Vancouver Writers Fest, the festival wanted a dynamic image that centred books in a fresh and unexpected way. After a few years of using multiple images to advertise the festival, the client also decided to focus the advertising to a single illustration.

Books can become a shelter, a refuge and a comfort and the Vancouver Writers Fest campaign artwork seeks to make that relationship immediate. And anybody who has been to Vancouver knows the consistently drizzling weather is essential to the identity of the city.

Graphic design by ZAK.