Technical Workshop - Last before Christmas!

Today was the hand-in for the Typography Module, I feel pleased it's out of the way now before Christmas and hope that everything is alright with it. Looking round at other people's work made me a bit apprehensive but what can I do now? Learn for next time I suppose!


The technical workshop today was about book covers. I've never really taken the time to look at book covers, except those womany ones that I read on holiday where they have a picture of the story on the front with some simple font. Not really inspiring but its a good read!


So today after looking at bookcoverarchive.com I was slightly more inspired to make a book cover. I have to admit though, I did struggle. I was sat there thinking 'I can't do this' getting frustrated with myself just staring at the scene. But then a bit of experimentation lead me to the idea of purposely overlapping the text so the word 'Outsider' was actually on the outside.


Here is the final book cover, well after about half an hour of doing it. I couldn't really find an appropriate place for the author title so as a last minute decision I had to place it at the bottom:

The colours of the book cover along with the font makes it look spooky, which was the genre I was going for since I haven't heard of the book before. The 'Outsider' title looks like a gate for the 'The', blocking it from the outside world, the long looking font also creates this feeling of a gate. So overall, I think some parts of the design are successful and others probably need a bit of work.