In this third-year project, I was given the brief of designing a typographic dust cover. The Dust Cover was based on a chosen Roald Dahl novel, namely The Witches. The dust cover needed to visually represent the emotion and connotations readers attached to this book. The main font on the dust cover was hand drawn and then carefully carved into Linocut allowing the texture around it to be created in the process. A monochromatic colour palette was decided to represent the light and dark forces spoken about within the story, creating an extreme contrast. The supporting font was chosen to look more structured and elegant to balance out the hand carved title. The information at the top of the cover as well as the authors name has been highlighted in a thick white box in order to represent information being redacted and add a sense of mystery to the dust cover.
In the beginning of the project it was a challenge to find my own style within the brief and maintain it but through trial and error, the style was eventually realised and worked cohesively with the brief. Finding the correct style allowed me to become more experimental. With each step of the process, there was ample room for continuous improvement in order to better the design according to the brief as well as understanding the workings and ethics of a dust cover design. If you have any feedback or comments on this process or the design, please feel free to share them.
Overall, the look and feel I was aiming to achieve was realised towards the end of the process allowing for a very refined dust cover. The brief asked for a typographic dust cover which was delivered printed and mocked up. However, a project is never truly perfect and there will always be room for improvement.
