How Sunandini Banerjee built the distinctive visual identity of Seagull Books

There is a saying — ‘dont judge a book by its cover’. But when the covers are elaborate stories in themselves, one can no longer separate them from the narrative within. When Sunandini Banerjee, senior editor and graphic designer, Seagull Books , designs a cover, it becomes more than an image wrapping a book. Through collage, abstraction, and illustration, her covers transform books by authors from different cultures and continents into symbolic visual narratives that often stay with a reader as much as the words within them.