Third Book Cover Design
For my final idea I decided to remain with the theme of record covers and the photography aspect of it. I wanted to create a series of books with separate photos within each book holding the familiar theme of jazz music. I went to a local jazz night and managed to take a few photos there which were perfect for what I needed.
Unfortunately the photos were not the best quality given the circumstances but I still managed to use them for good. I thought I could related certain parts of the images to the individual books, for instance the bar would be used for the 'south of the border, west of the sun' book as it was based upon a jazz bar. The other specific instruments would relate to the other books due to the heavy musical aspects in the two. 'Hear me Talkin' to ya' would possibly just have an array of instruments or maybe a microphone included due to its relation to all original jazz musicians and the amount of artists mentioned in the book. 'The Bear Comes Home' is about a saxophone playing bear and there was no sax in any of the images unfortunately so I may have had to improvise with this and take the aspect of the band to represent this one.
Here are a few examples of what i'd like my covers to look like. Once again it may be heavily inspired by record sleeves and the layout. I also wanted to take some of the bold colours used in already existing jazz posters and books as I thought these were just a an obvious choice. This time I reckon i'll experiment with different colours between the series as my previous ideas have kept the same colours throughout. I also noticed that these old fashioned jazz designed used a similar decorative typeface which I thought I could perhaps steer away from. I decided to use perhaps give it a contemporary/modern style and use a simple sans serif type like the example in the bottom left.
These were the images I cropped and edited for my designs and I managed to get the specific scenes I wanted as well which was a bonus. Luckily I managed to save these low quality photos. I think these may need further development however because I wanted the colour of the book cover to be the same as the image and there is multiple tones within these images. I reckon I need to limit it down to one colour.
These are a few variations of the front cover in different layouts and sizes. I reckon the image has worked well on all scales which means if it was ever put into context and advertising forms, it would look totally fine with no alteration to the image quality. I also experiments with the type on the top left image seeing if I could maybe experiment with the direction instead of using the traditional format. This was my favourite design of the three.
Here are my final three ideas for the third series. I think they have turned out really well and I used separate colours this time to try and separate my ideas from each other without making them look all too similar. I kept the same layout through each cover to give it the same consistent look within each of them despite the colour change. The colour change also helps separate the books at the same time as the art on the cover could be mistaken as the same image. I also managed to find a font that fit in with my style here. As stated before I wanted to use a simplistic and modern sans serif font here instead of a stylistic jazz font to give it a modern style. I am also really happy with how the colour and the image don't clash too much at all and they blend perfectly without too many tones at all being absorbed. I also find that the border I have placed around the outside of the cover gives it some depth so the whole thing doesn't seem too flat or harsh on the eyes.
Unfortunately the photos were not the best quality given the circumstances but I still managed to use them for good. I thought I could related certain parts of the images to the individual books, for instance the bar would be used for the 'south of the border, west of the sun' book as it was based upon a jazz bar. The other specific instruments would relate to the other books due to the heavy musical aspects in the two. 'Hear me Talkin' to ya' would possibly just have an array of instruments or maybe a microphone included due to its relation to all original jazz musicians and the amount of artists mentioned in the book. 'The Bear Comes Home' is about a saxophone playing bear and there was no sax in any of the images unfortunately so I may have had to improvise with this and take the aspect of the band to represent this one.
Here are a few examples of what i'd like my covers to look like. Once again it may be heavily inspired by record sleeves and the layout. I also wanted to take some of the bold colours used in already existing jazz posters and books as I thought these were just a an obvious choice. This time I reckon i'll experiment with different colours between the series as my previous ideas have kept the same colours throughout. I also noticed that these old fashioned jazz designed used a similar decorative typeface which I thought I could perhaps steer away from. I decided to use perhaps give it a contemporary/modern style and use a simple sans serif type like the example in the bottom left.
These are further developed halftone images with just the one colour are exactly what I wanted. These will be perfect for further development and will match any background colour I include. Hopefully it will turn out alright if I put it with text and also different scales and such.
These were some simple back cover designs I created which are both rather similar. The only change was I put the text into a straight box on the second paragraph which to me gave it more formal structure. I used a multi column grid in this design because I wanted to use a much more simple layout in comparison to the other two. The idea was that this would hopefully encourage me to simplify the whole design of the cover and use plenty of white space.
These are a few variations of the front cover in different layouts and sizes. I reckon the image has worked well on all scales which means if it was ever put into context and advertising forms, it would look totally fine with no alteration to the image quality. I also experiments with the type on the top left image seeing if I could maybe experiment with the direction instead of using the traditional format. This was my favourite design of the three.
Here are my final three ideas for the third series. I think they have turned out really well and I used separate colours this time to try and separate my ideas from each other without making them look all too similar. I kept the same layout through each cover to give it the same consistent look within each of them despite the colour change. The colour change also helps separate the books at the same time as the art on the cover could be mistaken as the same image. I also managed to find a font that fit in with my style here. As stated before I wanted to use a simplistic and modern sans serif font here instead of a stylistic jazz font to give it a modern style. I am also really happy with how the colour and the image don't clash too much at all and they blend perfectly without too many tones at all being absorbed. I also find that the border I have placed around the outside of the cover gives it some depth so the whole thing doesn't seem too flat or harsh on the eyes.
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