book project

this image was used to represent the battle between good and evil.

the two black strips going across the image work well to break up the picture also have the text cut out of them . the top half represents good the middle represents this battle in the middle swaying between good and evil and the bottom represents evil. it just so happens the people at the top are angels and at the bottom they are demons.

the text is actually the image

the colour of the text on the spine is actually the beige from the picture which i think makes it work together better

didn't put name of author on the front cover because i didn't want it to be to crowded with text its a very powerful image which i think need a very simple composition regarding the font.

also their is no need for the name of the author because Dan brown is one of the few people who's name is bigger then the book written

i kept the same font on the back and same colour because it reads well on black

also i changed the saturation and hue on certain parts of the image to emphasise the dark and light side.

this image worked really well because the sign of the ankh is actually hand made, tried a few digital images before this but they did not work this came out really slick tho. if i would do this image again i may change the text this one is not the most suitable i don't think.

Used spinning combination lock because I think this is a lock that most people relate to a safe or something very secure.

Have used the letter pressed text but done the same thing as the previous book and cut the font out of the strip. This is mainly so you can know the books are a set of 3.

I think the text for the title works well due to the cracks and imperfections in it, my inspiration for that was the fact the fortresses are supposed to be unbreakable but in the 21^st century a lot of these old medevil fortresses are actually falling apart and not as strong as they used to be.

The background is a circuit board I used this firstly because its obvious relation to the digital part of the title but also in the book there is a lot of talk about computers and networks. And all these little circuits represent that part of the story.

I changed the colours of the circuit board because I wanted the circuit paths to be highlighted, but also I wanted it to look like a negative image. Like it was having the flash hit it from a camera taking a picture.

With regards to the strips being used again on the front page I think this is not so much helping the composition it is mainly for the point of these 3 books being designed as a set. I had another idea for the composition but sadly could not use it ( refer to sketch book for this image)

Also I changed the colour of the penguin logo because I sore this had bin done before by other authors on some special editions and I thought it was a nice touch

I like the I've only used 3 or so colours I think it makes the book very easy on the eyes considering the image on the front cover is very busy I think it does well to tone it down a bit

all in all i think these images worked really well and I'm happy with the outcome if i could do this project again i would have liked to have got these book covers printed and got pictures of them wrapped around actual books, and maybe sneek in to a book store and took pictures of them on a shelf. also i think as a set these work really well together you can tell they are a set by stripes and the text being cut out of the stripes 

i think i did really well with experimentation with font on this task as well my sketchbook has a nice amount of experimentation with stencils, colours and printing. i tried letter press for the first time which worked really well for the type on the digital fortress book  cover