Creating Expressive Images: Cover Design
Brief Summary
Book cover design can allow for some of the most creative and expressive approaches to design. Book covers have the responsibility to hook its audience with striking and compelling layouts.
Usually expected to compete among dozens or hundreds of other designs, the need for eye-catching imagery is especially important.
To participate, one is required to find unique ways of expressing the themes of the book through engaging imagery with distinct character.
This project simulates the freedoms and challenges of cover design through the vector of conceptualising and executing illustrative book covers based on the theme of mythology.
Usually expected to compete among dozens or hundreds of other designs, the need for eye-catching imagery is especially important.
To participate, one is required to find unique ways of expressing the themes of the book through engaging imagery with distinct character.
This project simulates the freedoms and challenges of cover design through the vector of conceptualising and executing illustrative book covers based on the theme of mythology.
Project Deliverables
Mount or support the final three cover designs on an A2 blackboard or three A4 blackboards and submit in plastic sleeve/s to keep your work clean and safe. Please mark your work clearly and neatly.
3 x Book Cover Designs handed in digitally as PDFs and PNGs (Group A: 26 Oct - 9AM | Group B: 12 Nov - 9AM).
3 x Book Cover Designs (220x140mm) mounted on an A2 blackboard or on three seperate
A4 blackboards (Group A: 29 Oct - 9AM | Group B: 17 Nov - 9AM).
Process work in an A5 booklet/notebook/journal (Group A: 26 Oct - 9AM |
Group B: 12 Nov - 9AM).
3 x Book Cover Designs handed in digitally as PDFs and PNGs (Group A: 26 Oct - 9AM | Group B: 12 Nov - 9AM).
3 x Book Cover Designs (220x140mm) mounted on an A2 blackboard or on three seperate
A4 blackboards (Group A: 29 Oct - 9AM | Group B: 17 Nov - 9AM).
Process work in an A5 booklet/notebook/journal (Group A: 26 Oct - 9AM |
Group B: 12 Nov - 9AM).
Design Strategy
This project sparked some inspiration to create something very different from what I am used to designing. I was aiming for something much darker and much less lighthearted than I would usually just jump into as my go to for designing. I made use of minimal colour and fills throughout all three covers. I digitally drew three women as well as something extra for each of them, the scorpions and the knife for example. I worked the names of the books around what exactly takes place in each book sothat in the end, there would be a quite literal unity throughout the whole trilogy.
Process Work
Final Deliverables
Mounted Final Deliverables
