Here are two screen shots of the final outcome for the two book cover designs i completed.
The first-Caitlin Morans ‘How to be a Women’, i attempted to capture the feel and theme of the book, bring out and represent its feminist humour and comical theme. The final design is collage and print, using pink, grey and white as primary colours. The overall design was thought out in terms of considering the majority female reader and the contents of the book, which can be seen through my sketchbooks.
The secondary book is Emil and the detectives, the brief stated to create a front and back cover for a ‘mature’ detective book aimed at children. I of course researched the audience, collected mood boards and progressed through sketchbooks. I also worked carefully to create the typography through Adobe Illustrator
The initial idea was to illustrate the train-line (an important part of the story), I ended up with a collage style front cover done through Photoshop and Illustrator which also I felt worked. Also in terms of colour I thought carefully about keeping it ‘mature’ to suit the reader whilst also remembering the age range of the young audience. The colour scheme was also inspired of the storyline, the 140 marks stolen from Emil. Overall in terms of concept of the design the story line played an important part in inspiring the final outcomes of characters, colour and illustration
In the process of designing the covers I worked to a template and consider sizing, I found that this meant compositional elements had to be re-adjusted several times and elements such as the barcode, I also had to keep to the guidelines with both books.
Also character design was equally important, I researched the character in the book to recreate the villain illustration to go onto the back cover.
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