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This is the final design of my book cover. I decided to do away with the partial jacket and put both of the “scenes” on a full jacket with the innocent scene in front and the dark scene at the back. With this the cover retains its impact when people check the back cover, and I don’t get the problem of relying on people to take off the jacket to get the full experience of the design.
*Having trouble with tumblr right now, the images look stretched for some reason.
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This is the first draft for my book cover design for the The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales. As opposed to what the popular view of fairy tales as innocent and safe, the Grimm’s fairy tales, on the other hand, can get very dark and there are stories in there that might not be appropriate for children. My concept for the cover was to show something seemingly safe and cute with a dark twist. And for this, I picked the story of “The Hare and the Hedgehog” to be portray on the cover.
For the first draft, my plan was to have the “innocent” start of the story on the green part which would be a partial jacket. And behind it on the cover would be the dark ending.
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This is an in-class exercise that we did. I had to do a book cover for a western book. Through research, a lot of western books were illustrated and in colour. However, since I was limited by the restrictions of the exercise, I decided to make it look like a wanted poster instead, since it fits with western theme and would work well with our image.
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Photo reblogged from To Be Shelved
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by Richard Arthur Stewart/Commoner Inc., click through for more.
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Photoset reblogged from To Be Shelved
Jules Verne Series ~ Jim Tierney
Classics usually allow for a more personal interpretation, Since most people are already vaguely familiar with the premise of the books.
Being an equal-parts book nerd and equal-parts design nerd, I was delighted with Illustrator Jim Tierney’s Jules Verne book cover series, which was his senior thesis at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The covers are richly decorated with thematic illustrations and with hand-lettered title fonts. On top of that, each book wears a unique and interactive jacket, one, for example, having a spin-travelling wheel, which as you read, you can turn to match the destinations visited around the globe by the characters!
You can see Tierney’s design process in detail at faceout.com, while his other (equally jaw-dropping) works are posted on his website and his blog. Now my only wish is that those books could be printed so that I can get them for my library!
Jim is an incredible designer. Read my interview with him about this series by CLICKING HERE.
I really like this set of Jules Verne books designed by Jim Tierney. These book cover designs show a lot of different things one could do with book covers.
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Photo reblogged from To Be Shelved
Cover design for On the Road — a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac
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Photo reblogged from To Be Shelved
(via design work life » Kirsty White: Perfume)
There are so many wonderful covers for “Perfume”, which I have yet to read.
