Book Covers

Here are the finalized front covers of my Typography class's book cover assignment.  I'll post pictures of them printed out and bounded onto the books by next week.

Illustrator and InDesign
6.25" x 9.25"

Book Covers

So for Typography, we have to do a series of three book covers and, of course, I had to pick my favorite book series, The Spenser series, by Robert B. Parker.  In my opinion, his books are amazing and quite intelligent mystery novels, but 95% of his covers are horribly ugly.  (Seriously, look up the cover for Stardust, it's disgusting).

I have the same assignment for my Illustration Concepts II class, so I'll be doing six different covers.  Good thing I've been wanting to do this project for a while!

Here is the first completed book cover:
6.25" x 9.25"
Illustrator, InDesign

 

The cover probably needs a little explanation.  The book is about this actress named Jill Joyce who hires Spenser as a body guard and find out who is sending her threatening messages.  For the first third of the book, the threats are just word of mouth, until Jill goes to her dressing room to find a doll of her hung by the neck over the door frame, which is really important to the story.

Movie Posters

So I had to do a couple different variations of a movie poster of our choosing for my Typography I class and I decided to pick "When in Rome."  The movie was so-so, but it was really awesome how they switched back and forth from Rome and the Guggenheim museum in NYC.  Their lack luster movie poster is inexcusable for a movie that was filmed in two of the most beautiful places in the world, so I had to remedy this.  I wanted to introduce Italian architecture into my piece, so I did a little research and created the graphic fountain based on some of my findings.  The fountain is really important to the story, so it's a good fit.  I played around with some color schemes, but I think I really like my first piece (the asymmetrical one) best.

Also, props to my friend Sophia for modeling for me and letting me take a zillion pictures of you!

"When in Rome" movie posters
11"x17"
Illustrator, InDesign, photography

Works in Progress

Few more things I'm working on.  The first is an entry for the Type Designers Club's 58th Anniversary Poster Contest.  I'm going to play around with color and maybe texture, but this is the greyscale.

TDC 58 Poster
11" x 17"
InDesign

The next are a few sketches for a book cover for "The Diary of Anne Frank"  I'm going to make a few more sketches that are little heavier in illustration and less on the hand lettering since this is for Illustration Concepts and not Hand Letters or Typography.

5.5" x 7.75"
Micron, Graphite, Photoshop