Book Cover · Navid Saleh · 2026
Merubashi O Himbaher Deshe
মেরুবাসী ও হিমবাহের দেশে
Studio AH designed a cover that takes Bangla readers to Alaska’s ice, before they read a single word.
- Author
- Navid Saleh
- Publisher
- Swadesh Shoilee
- Year
- 2026
- Format
- Landscape, 8 × 11 in
- Design
- Studio AH
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01 · The book
An engineer goes to the edge of the map.
Navid Saleh teaches environmental engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. In between research papers on clean water, he writes about society, nature and the way we live.
This book is his journey through Alaska: the land, the northern lights, the glaciers and the people of the far north, told in words and in pictures. His hope is simple. A reader who sees this place should care a little more for the earth.
“পৃথিবীর যে ক’টি অঞ্চলের প্রকৃতি তার আদি স্বরূপ ধরে রেখেছে … আলাস্কা তেমনি একটি অদেখা মেরুদেশ।”
02 · The brief
Make readers feel the cold first.
- A place nobody has seen. Most readers in Bangladesh have never stood on ice. The cover had to take them there in one look.
- A wide book. The book is landscape, 8 × 11 inches, closer to a photo book than a novel. The scene could be wide and calm.
- A Bangla title over white ice. Snow, sky and a long title all fight for the same space. The title had to win without a box behind it.
- People, not just scenery. The book is about the people who live there as much as the land, so they had to be on the front.
03 · The drafts
Two covers before the moose.
04 · How it’s made
Scene, crop, title, jacket.
05 · The lettering
A navy title in the sky.
- Two tight lines. The title stacks into one block, so the eye reads it as a single shape against the mountains.
- Deep navy. The darkest colour on the jacket, the same one that runs down the spine.
- A thin white edge. Each letter carries a soft white outline, so it stays sharp where it crosses snow and rock.
- The author on the glacier. Navid Saleh’s name sits smaller, right on the blue face of the ice.
06 · Colour
Every colour comes from the ice.
07 · The spine
A navy spine for the shelf.
08 · The back
The back keeps the ice empty.
The back turns around and looks the other way: a wide, cracked glacier with two small cabins on the rocks, the only sign of people. No text on the ice, so the scene keeps breathing.
Everything a shop needs lives on one white card: a tiny copy of the front, credits, the price in Taka and dollars, the publisher’s logo, a QR code and the ISBN.
09 · The flaps
The author on one side, Alaska on the other.
Front flap · The author
A smiling photo of Navid Saleh with his story: a teacher at UT Austin, a writer since his college days for the Bangladeshi magazine Shoili, and the author of Darshan Bhabna, Mohamarir Obhiggota and Ma-hara. He writes on the environment for Anandabazar, Prothom Alo, Jugantor and Samakal.
Back flap · The story
Civilisation has opened many new roads, but people and nature were crushed under its wheels. Alaska is one of the few places that kept its nature and its people as they were. The flap invites the reader in.
Both flaps end in the same mountains and ice, so the jacket never breaks its scene, even when it is folded in.
10 · The whole jacket
Back, spine, front and both flaps.