Book & Magazine - Cover Design & Illustration
A Selection Of Student Projects
A Selection Of Student Projects
The best book and magazine covers really serve as little posters for the content inside. In many ways the function and aesthetic is very similar to film posters so they can really be great examples of graphic design as a fine art.
These projects were created while I was a student at The American Academy of Art in Chicago, IL. As an illustration major I was required to not only create the illustrations within a professional schedule and context (reading the book/summary, submitting pencil roughs, submitting comps, etc.) but to also create the final design context for each piece. This was to show our understanding of the relationship between a book’s market, its interior content and the finished cover and illustration as published.
These projects were created while I was a student at The American Academy of Art in Chicago, IL. As an illustration major I was required to not only create the illustrations within a professional schedule and context (reading the book/summary, submitting pencil roughs, submitting comps, etc.) but to also create the final design context for each piece. This was to show our understanding of the relationship between a book’s market, its interior content and the finished cover and illustration as published.
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Einstein’s Dreams - Alan Lightman
Cover Wrap
Cover Wrap Front
Cover Wrap Back
Cover Wrap Illustration
Front Illustration
Back Illustration
Evanston ACE Cover
Cover Comp
Cover Illustration
William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy
Neuromancer (Part 1) Cover Wrap
Neuromancer Cover Front
Neuromancer Cover Back and Spine
Neuromancer Illustration
Count Zero (Part 2) Cover Wrap
Count Zero Cover Front
Count Zero Cover Back and Spine
Count Zero Illustration
Mona Lisa Overdrive (Part 3) Cover Wrap
Mona Lisa Overdrive Cover Front
Mona Lisa Overdrive Cover Back and Spine
Mona Lisa Overdrive Illustration
