Book Cover Project | Abe Hagood

For this project, I was tasked with creating several designs across different styles for the cover of a theoretical book with the following description:

The Space Between by Adrian Zigler
In this haunting debut novel, Adrian Zigler weaves a masterful tale of humanity’s final hours stretched across the fabric of time itself. “The Space Between” follows Dr. Sarah Chen, a quantum physicist who discovers that the universe isn’t simply ending—it’s already ended countless times before.
When Sarah’s experimental quantum observatory detects patterns of temporal decay, she realizes she’s witnessing something unprecedented: the death of time itself, rippling backward through history. As reality begins to unravel around her, she discovers she’s not the first scientist to make this observation. Across different timelines, different versions of humanity have tried—and failed—to prevent the coming temporal collapse.
With the help of Marcus Blackwood, a mysterious colleague who seems to exist in multiple timelines at once, Sarah embarks on a desperate journey through the “spaces between” moments, seeking the origin point of universal entropy. But each jump through time reveals a more terrifying truth: what if humanity’s attempts to prevent the end are actually causing it?
Zigler’s debut combines cutting-edge physics with philosophical questions about fate, free will, and the cyclical nature of existence. “The Space Between” offers a fresh perspective on the time travel genre, asking not whether we can change the past, but whether we should try to change anything at all. This mind-bending thriller will leave readers questioning their own place in the grand cosmic dance of creation and destruction.

I created nine designs in typography, illustrated, and Photoshop-focused styles and chose one from each style to iterate on further. This project required me to put into practice my skills across several programs and in design to develop covers that were visually appealing and fit the theme.