For this brief we had to create 3 different book covers with the audience being the main thought while designing them. We were given 3 books for 3 different audiences and genres;
- Murder Most Unladylike (Children's Fiction)
- Girl, Woman, Other (Adult Fiction)
- Diary of a Young Naturalist (Adult Non-Fiction)
We were asked to do and show as many different ways of experimenting when approaching this task In all different mediums, styles and techniques, so below I have done some rough thumbnails for each cover.
- Murder Most Unladylike (Children's Fiction)
- Girl, Woman, Other (Adult Fiction)
- Diary of a Young Naturalist (Adult Non-Fiction)
We were asked to do and show as many different ways of experimenting when approaching this task In all different mediums, styles and techniques, so below I have done some rough thumbnails for each cover.
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Once I felt comfortable with some ideas for each design I moved top digital to start creating them. I used the indesign document provided on the penguin website to ensure that I was working in the right size and made sure I included all the standards and copy that was required.
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
I chose to start off with using the gender symbols as a design element for this cover as the book has strong links to gender, identity, feminism and much more which shows its relevance, I want to use 12 symbols due to there being 12 women in which the book focuses on.
I chose to start off with using the gender symbols as a design element for this cover as the book has strong links to gender, identity, feminism and much more which shows its relevance, I want to use 12 symbols due to there being 12 women in which the book focuses on.
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`Since its all about diversity and identity I wanted to use a mix of the gender symbols and use the corresponding colour for each one and layer them up onto my cover.
I started to find the pink to be too stereotypical so I decided to experiment using different colour schemes.
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
With this design I really wanted to use some imagery, more specifically something with heavy links to nature, which obviously ties into the book and themes. One idea I had was having a foliage of plants set at the bottom and then the title at the top, so I had taken some pictures of plants and I put them into indesign and started creating some layouts.
With this design I really wanted to use some imagery, more specifically something with heavy links to nature, which obviously ties into the book and themes. One idea I had was having a foliage of plants set at the bottom and then the title at the top, so I had taken some pictures of plants and I put them into indesign and started creating some layouts.
This was an idea that I had abandoned very quickly when realising its not something which I was able to do what I wanted with the image and the space so I moved onto another idea.
Next I wanted to try a more simple approach and just use a simple image of a leaf.
Next I wanted to try a more simple approach and just use a simple image of a leaf.
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For the one below I had experimented with how I wanted to display and style the box in which the type sits in.
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Then once I was more comfortable with some rough layouts I wanted to experiment with the typeface more so I tried out some different options.
Once I had a rough groundwork to the direction I wanted to take this cover in I had started working on it as a whole with all the given copy.
I didn't like how the leaf that sat In the spine nearly touched both the edges so I edited the image to allow me to have it slightly smaller, but in doing so now the rest of the leaves appear smaller.
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Murder Most Unladylike - Children's Fiction.
Below I had done some experimenting with the title for his book as I wanted to once again go in the type direction with it, a heavy influence for this project is Art Deco due to the time period in which the book is set. As well as playing around with some colour for it.
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Once I got comfortable with the direction in which I wanted to go down I started applying this to the cover of the book itself.
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Below I've started working on refining these ideas across the spine, then also starting to develop the back of the book and how I want to style the given copy onto the book.
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Below I had put it all together but was still a little unsure on whether I wanted the title and author on the cover to be in the same typeface or not.
Following some feedback I had made some changes to some of the designs.
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Below I had done some more small adjustments to the covers.
For Girl Woman Other it was suggested that I changed the colour for some of the type, so I changed the colour of the media reviews to colours from the graphic but I wasn't liking how this looked.
For Girl Woman Other it was suggested that I changed the colour for some of the type, so I changed the colour of the media reviews to colours from the graphic but I wasn't liking how this looked.
For Murder Most Unladylike I just made sure I had no hanging orphans on the blurb copy and changed the colour to a dark blue which was suggested. But once again I wasn't really liking how this looked.
Below I had made some more changes to Diary of a Young Naturalist and changed the colour of some of the accent colours to a darker green.
I had also done an autumnal version of this design to see how it looked with more orange colours.
I had also done an autumnal version of this design to see how it looked with more orange colours.
For Girl Woman Other I had changed the positioning and layout of the back cover and added an image of some natural black skin to bring in those connotations from the book itself, but I wasn't really like this as I felt like it didn't feel like it went with the cover.
For Murder Most Unladylike I had made all the elements on the front cover the same colour and made them a dark purple to avoid using black, as well as fixing some issues in the formatting of the text.
FINAL MOCKUPS
