Book Covers Final Piece

Within this assignment I was able to create four different book covers and the topic for each one was either graffiti, street art, outsider art and murals. Before creating the designs I researched various book cover designs each which from different years.

These designs help me with my designs and I was able to use them without making a complete replica of it. For example 'Gang Girls' written by Maisie Mosco, I created a design from her book, however changed a few pieces which would make it my own.

In my design you can see there are similarities between Maisie Mosco and my piece however the difference between it is that the font I used was different, I used 'Tekton Pro' and I believe in Maisie Mosco's font she used 'Chalkboard'.

After creating this design I started my other covers and I also took in some ideas from other people's books. For example I created a design based on a book about photography by Ed Collacot.

My next design was all created out of imagination however the images i added to the design were all from a secondary source. In this cover I acquired an image which was to small however i was able to make it still look sharp and clear. I did this by opening the image in Adobe Illustrator and whilst highlighting the image I went from 'Object' to 'Image Trace' to 'Make'. After this I choose window and opened the Image trace panel and this allowed me to edit the image. The design for the background is where I used image trace.

This next design was also based from another design. I stuck with the layout but only change the font of the text.

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Lesson 1

In todays lesson I created a couple of book cover designs which were inspired by other artists and I also created one of my own unique designs.

This Design was inspired by bauhaus. The similarities is that the backgrounds are both black and the text is filled in with primary colours also pop art  related colours. However with my design instead of using the font as the original I use four different fonts, just to give it a bit of variety.

Lesson 2

In this lesson we learnt about the placeholder text tool and I used it in my book cover design. My task was to create four different blurb in different ways. For example, one blurb would be all bold or another would be placed at the top or the bottom. To create a placeholder text I needed to go onto InDesign and create a text box at a reasonable size. When creating the text box I highlighted the box and clicked on type which is on the main menu, after clicking on type, as I highlighted the text box I was able to click on 'placeholder text'. This allowed me to add a paragraph of text, however it wasn't words that are real but letters scrambled every where. The point of this task was to just create four example of different styles/types of blurbs.

My example's: