Jeff Kern design for "Space Case"

Space Case

At the time of this design, our daughter was 8. I’m not sure about your 8-year-old, but ours had very selective hearing, and remembering, and reasoning—often conveniently spacey. So when playing with mirrored photography on an iPad we made this base image. The alien, almost futuristically religious visual felt like something out of a sci-fi movie. Finishing it off with a galactic backdrop and type style completed the illustration of a being from the stars. The double entendre didn’t hurt either. She won’t like this when she’s older.