Being presented with the opportunity to design a book cover for Penguin’s Student competition was exciting and something that I wanted to get stuck into. As I had never designed a book cover before I wanted to research into what works and doesn’t work for these covers. I found a great article on 99 Designs that goes through the things that a successful book cover encompasses. Once I had chosen which book I was going to design a cover for I decided to read it to enable me to gain a better understanding of the content / subject. Whilst doing this I took out key points that could potentially be used within a design. Below are those notes. I then moved onto creating some initial ideas (some of which I made digitally). I then took one of my initial ideas and developed it further. The design that I submitted is the one on the bottom. I think that this design encompasses the them of the book (exploring the universe and galaxies). The spiral was made using lens flares in photoshop and was then imported into illustrator where I added colour and resized it to fit into the rest of the design. The bright colours make this design interesting to look at. Initially I did try it without the spiral but I felt it look a bit dull and uninteresting so added it back in.
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