Using the removed cut outs from the inside of the book, I created my own version of what I wanted Labyrinth to look like. The title and door was cut out of a magazine I had brought for the project. I wanted there to be a sense of unknown and mystery to match the brief of the story.
Category: Student work
Labyrinth Interior
We had a number of different themes to choose from. Each theme had a name and a story to go with it. I chose the theme labyrinth. This was a story about a family who were trapped inside a house. Every-time they opened a door it would lead them to a different part of the house, preventing them from leaving.
At the beginning I was playing around with different cuts and rips inside the book. I created diagonal and horizontal cuts trying to imitate different textures, or in this case, different rooms of the house. For my final cut (which I wish I had done throughout the whole book) was kind of like an illusion. I wanted it to look as if it was a tunnel going through the book, falling and disappearing into the distance. I cut out triangles in different sizes and angles turning and twisting throughout the pages at different thicknesses. My thought was to make it look never-ending, much like the house in the story.
Milk and Honey
This was for James’s project. We had to create our own versions of a penguin book that he taught us how to make in InDesign.
For my own design I chose one of my favourite books Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur. I kept the same traditional penguin design, but I made it look like Kaur’s original book by changing it to a black cover and different fonts. I did some research and found the bee images (since I had no idea how to draw them) and got rid of the penguin. I wanted it to give off the same feel of the book I was recreating.
The only thing that bothers me is:
– the crop lines within the cartouche and the fact that it’s slightly placed more to the left and not centred (maybe I’m being paranoid, I’m not really sure)
– and how the image looks pixelated and not clear
Other than those two things, I’m quite happy with it.
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
I have designed a book cover for my favourite childhood book ‘The Tiger who came to Tea’ in the style of the classic Penguin books, using InDesign. I have kept the cartouche as well as the logo and the same type face of Gill Sans seen throughout the original covers as well as the overall layout. I have however, changed the background to reflect the tiger, and have used colours to resemble the colours seen on the original over of the book; including, blue, purple and pinks. I like how this as turns out as it reflects both the book and the Penguin style, however, if I had more time, I would draw a tiger to replace the penguin logo to be of more relevance.
Noise
After choosing my I chose the theme if ‘Noise’ with was a story of siblings who were forced onto the streets through a window of their house due to hearing noises in smaller sections of their home. I began by altering the book accordingly, with a house cut in the middle and a window in the beginning and ending covers to show their escape route, which ties in the stories, beginning, middle and end.
Information Signs
Instructions, Information and Warnings
Looking around the environment, I chose to obtain pictures of information signs and compare and contrast to one another to see their significance. I noticed how the signs were mainly made using the primary colours; red, blue or yellow, as well as green in regular shapes such as circles to give orders and triangles to give warnings. The text upon them were in a sans serif font in either black and white which enabled them to stand out and portray a clear message effectively to the audience.
The Great Gatsby
I have recreated the classic Penguin cover, using InDesign, to practice my skills and gain some new ones by learning to draw different shapes as well as adjusting the leading, tracking and kerning of characters to reflect the original. I like the overall outcome, however if I had more time, I would redraw the cartouche shape to be more accurate and seamless.
Plane Ticket to Mexico
I created the ideal gift with the given information of my classmate liking to travel, being half Mexican as well as loving the chocolate Kinder Bueno. I also found out some significant dates in her life as well as favourite letters (J, D, S), colours (pink and black) and numbers (4) to create a personal plane ticket to her hometown in Mexico from her current home in the UK on her 20th birthday, designed on a Kinder Bueno shape.
‘The New Library’ Penguin Book Design:
For this Penguin Cover project, I made sure to apply what I learnt from the tutorial video in order to make the process of creating my personally designed cover more methodical by using paragraph and character styles in my work. From this, I got very similar layouts from the original penguin design to my own internet inspired design. From this template I was able to add different fonts and text without effecting the layout of the design.
Great Expectations
For this task, I recreated the cover of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I took inspiration from David Pearson’s cover of Nineteen Eighty-Four. David Pearson’s cover took themes from the book and communicated that visually through a small change/addition. Great Expectations has many themes but the predominant one is becoming a gentleman in Victorian England. I used my template from The Great Gatsby to make the bulk of my cover and then created a small top hat on Adobe Illustrator to convey the theme of gentlemen in society in the 19th Century.