First Book Cover Designs
Today I made my first set of book covers for the chosen books from before. To begin I had to base the whole thing of a grid and the Marber grid was recommended. The Marber grid is a grid used for nearly all Penguin books. It is a layout where two thirds of the cover are image and the other is text. The structure of the grid has pretty much remained the same since its invention. A series of Penguin books would also maintain the same colour throughout so that you knew they were part of the same body, for instance there is a crime series where each book is the same green and also has a similar medium of imagery in each cover. Another key point is that original Marber covers would use Helvetica as the chosen typeface.
First I took some of the images I made doing the excel task where I tried to make images relating to the books using an excel spreadsheet. I thought they seemed a bit plain and basic however and I wanted them to have a consistent look and maybe even a colour theme, so I put them through the scanner and played with them on photoshop to see what I could create.
These three designs were easily distinguishable as books about music. I made a few other designs that are a bit less literal however they have no obvious relation to jazz or music at all. I may have to dig deep inside the books and find a reason since these designs look much more professional then the previous three. I have also slightly played around with the layout here seeing how I could make it seem more simple and play with the white space, or in this case the orange space. The reason I chose orange was I found this related to jazz in a few ways, for instance a lot of the jazz posters I researched used a lot of dark blues contrasted with the orange, I also found that this was quite a classical and retro colour which fits with the time period jazz was invented. Like mentioned before, I used Helvetica because that was the original typeface used in the Marber grid and I wanted to continue that in a consistent house style. The bold title addresses that that text is the first text to be viewed, followed by the author and such.
Here are the images that I preferred to use instead of the previous literal ones. I have also included a back cover and a spine for the professional standard and hopefully for the print. I kept the same orange colours throughout for the same reasons as before. In my opinion you can easily tell this is a series of books. The reason I prefer these images is because they are way less literal and look much more professional. The first image relates to the bear in the book 'The Bear Comes Home', as the whole novel is about how the bear becomes a saxophone player. I used the base of a saxophone drawn on illustrator and scanned it, then altered it further on photoshop. I used this technique for all the images to gain its consistent style. Hopefully the saxophone image portrayed here is clear enough to tell what it is. The second image was based upon the repetition of music notation. I was also hoping that it would represent how possibly jazz was quite contemporary at the time it arrived, which relates that the book is full of interviews with people who invented jazz. How contemporary the jazz was relates the the quivers in the image/notation. Instead of being straight and regular it has become irregular and jagged, like some contemporary art. The final one is a really simple idea which is that the characters started a jazz bar with each other where people would perform and drink. This was an illustration of a piano which is a common instrument in that genre of music and time period also. I hope this isn't to literal however it may have had to have that clarity compared to the others.
First I took some of the images I made doing the excel task where I tried to make images relating to the books using an excel spreadsheet. I thought they seemed a bit plain and basic however and I wanted them to have a consistent look and maybe even a colour theme, so I put them through the scanner and played with them on photoshop to see what I could create.
These three designs were easily distinguishable as books about music. I made a few other designs that are a bit less literal however they have no obvious relation to jazz or music at all. I may have to dig deep inside the books and find a reason since these designs look much more professional then the previous three. I have also slightly played around with the layout here seeing how I could make it seem more simple and play with the white space, or in this case the orange space. The reason I chose orange was I found this related to jazz in a few ways, for instance a lot of the jazz posters I researched used a lot of dark blues contrasted with the orange, I also found that this was quite a classical and retro colour which fits with the time period jazz was invented. Like mentioned before, I used Helvetica because that was the original typeface used in the Marber grid and I wanted to continue that in a consistent house style. The bold title addresses that that text is the first text to be viewed, followed by the author and such.
Here are the images that I preferred to use instead of the previous literal ones. I have also included a back cover and a spine for the professional standard and hopefully for the print. I kept the same orange colours throughout for the same reasons as before. In my opinion you can easily tell this is a series of books. The reason I prefer these images is because they are way less literal and look much more professional. The first image relates to the bear in the book 'The Bear Comes Home', as the whole novel is about how the bear becomes a saxophone player. I used the base of a saxophone drawn on illustrator and scanned it, then altered it further on photoshop. I used this technique for all the images to gain its consistent style. Hopefully the saxophone image portrayed here is clear enough to tell what it is. The second image was based upon the repetition of music notation. I was also hoping that it would represent how possibly jazz was quite contemporary at the time it arrived, which relates that the book is full of interviews with people who invented jazz. How contemporary the jazz was relates the the quivers in the image/notation. Instead of being straight and regular it has become irregular and jagged, like some contemporary art. The final one is a really simple idea which is that the characters started a jazz bar with each other where people would perform and drink. This was an illustration of a piano which is a common instrument in that genre of music and time period also. I hope this isn't to literal however it may have had to have that clarity compared to the others.
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