Using existing imagery the entire book is made of digital collage as a different take on the graphic novel. As the alien regains hope and begins to understand this world he has crashed onto, each spread introduces a new color. Offsetting the grungy black and white textured feel of the whole story, bright colors were used for the text, with each representing the color to be added on the following spread. The type treatment symbolizes actions happening within the story, such as the multiple boxes on the first spread showing the beeping of the ship monitors.

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Other design aspects were used to potentially inspire designers such as using different types of folds to incorporate them into the story or the use of spot varnish and silver foil. The shop spread uses the Yupo Jelly paper on the gloves. One of the unique properties of that paper is that it can be placed and removed from multiple surfaces without ever losing its ability to stick, so it creates an interactive element within the story where the reader can help the alien hide on earth by putting gloves on his tentacles. The Alien and His Ship was printed on textured paper to emphasize the gritty quality of the story and bound using Japanese book binding technique in order to represent Yupo’s roots in Japan. Leather covers the binding to further show a handmade quality as well as bring in even more texture.