Intro to typo - book covers

Intro to Typography Semester 2

Book Jackets Callum Wastell s2946790

Concept With other books failing to turn out the way I wanted them too, I changed to the hunger games series. I tried to take event in the books them selves and portray them in my covers. I wanted to go with a minimalistic look that would leave the viewer wanting more. This would hopefully increase the sales. I decided to create the same style for each book so that people would be able to know that it is a series. Although they have the same style they all have different effects and different fonts. I chose to have the cover have a dripping blood look, the second book to be branded into wood and the third as if it were a bird.

Process I went though a long process of trying to get these covers to look the way I wanted then to. I originally started by using paint to try and create a real dripping effect before switching over to the computer to generate these. I found it much easier to make the covers I wanted on illustrator and photoshop. Once i decided on what my covers where going to look like I found it alot easier to create them.

Colours I chose the colours i did because i didnt want the background to take away from the typography. I also used a wood grain background becasue I wanted it to have the appearance of being branded onto the wood.