George Monbiot is a journalist, author, academic, and environmental and political activist. He writes regularly for the Guardian, and specialises in cutting to the chase when it comes to the big issues of our time, particularly climate change – whilst always backing his arguments up with fantastic attention to detail.

I really respect his work, so it was a thorough pleasure to work on a cover for this collection of his writings. The brief was to create something iconic – so I figured I’d focus on the fact that this book is a warning to humanity.