Hotel Love by Petra Piuk
Hotel Love is a novel described as “a creepy love story with AI” written by Austrian author Petra Piuk and published by Leykam Buchverlag.
The design, full of editorial details, was carried out by Vienna-based Sellerie Studio, who developed a series of lipstick lettering, as well as the layout and typesetting of the book. The designers comment on the book design (translated from German):
It was clear from the very first pencil sketches that we wanted to package this dystopian love story in a way that was as toxic as possible.
Glossy lip service: Our design “Read My Lips” (or not …) went through several stages of development before it arrived at the (forest) bottom of reality — fortunately without exceeding its best-before date.
The typesetting uses MT Baskerville for the main text, Violeta for titles and highlights, and Input Mono Compressed for the ISBN on the cover and the book’s sections.
