Stalemate

Stalemate is a relationship self-help style book that uses analogies from author Yaw Asante’s career in finance to help readers make sense of the relationship stalemate of a post-gender role society.

The cover design plays upon the book’s title theme of chess by utilizing an ambiguous bistable figure illusion where the contours of the two figures face to face create the form of a chess piece in the central negative space.