Book Cover Decision

After researching book covers, I eventually chose the book I wanted to change the cover of:

 

(Cyberspace Adventure-Terrance Dicks)

This book is part of a series made by a famous English writer who is mostly popular for his scripting in the Doctor Who series on TV. He produced a large amount of books however. I immediately began to generate ideas on how to improve the overall design of the cover. A made several thumbnail sketches and a mind map to decide how the cover should look.

Book Cover Design

The next assignment I was given was to produce a book cover design of a chosen book. Firstly I began to look on the Internet for interesting book covers and books. Here are a few I found to be particularly interesting in composition:

(X-Ray-Nick Veasey)

















(The Invention of World Religions- Tomoko Masuzawa)

(Things I Have Learned in My Life so Far- Stefan Sagmeister)

I then began to look at children's books because the colours and shapes used in the front covers tend to be mor interesting and colourful. I looked at books like:

(The Very Hungry Caterpillar-Eric Carle)

(The Gruffalo- Julia Donaldson)

I have made the decision to choose a children's book because the engaging colours used in the images and the way it doesn't have to be a serious image.

Photomontage Improvements

I wanted to improve the previous montage to make it look more visually impressive. I therefore look around for other impressive album covers. The one that stood out the most in my eyes was the album cover for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. I really like this album cover because it uses many colours and is quite abstract. It also fits in perfectly with the montage I am making. I managed to blend it into the sky quite well. Here it is: