Book Cover Task

Requirements

- Design a book cover for a pre-existing novel using Illustrator and Photoshop- This book cover must have a relevant colour scheme- This book cover must also have appropriate use of Dingbats and Fonts (at least 3).- This book cover must convey the genre of the book, through its colours and fonts- No photographs may be used, but you must use the scanner to scan in at least one original

drawing.

Research

- Find 5 book covers that you like that don’t use photography as it’s main element (it can have a small bit of photography)

- List 10 books you think you would be able to create a suitable cover for- Brainstorm for 5 of these books what would suit them in terms of

- dingbats- font choice- colour scheme- think about who the book is aimed at - is it a children’s book? is it a horror novel? is it a biog-

raphy?- Of these 5, select which one you prefer and indicate it in the document somehow

- Compile these into a word document and save in your student folder to be printed later

Range of Ideas

- Complete trials of the hand-drawn element you will add to your cover. It might be:- the title- a drawing/painting of a face or object- the author’s name- the publishing company’s logo- a background

- Select your best hand-drawn element and scan it in and save it to your student file.- Create a new Illustrator document with the dimensions of 10cm x 15cm selected- Arrange at least 5 trial designs for your cover, looking at scale, position, rotation, warping the

text, adding drop shadows and glows, etc.- Each arrangement can have different fonts and dingbats.- Don’t forget to add your hand drawn element to experiment with where it can be placed.- Save each trial as a PDF in your folder- Select 3 colour palates from Design-Seeds.com that you think work with your novel cover. If you

cannot find any, you will need to create your own.

Range of Materials and Techniques

- After completing your 5 trial designs, select the trial that best suits your novel cover. - Open an A4 document and drop in the text and re-scale it so it fits the entire page.- Using your three colour palates, create at least three different colour trials based on your se-

lected final.- For each trial, use a different background. You might want to take it into Photoshop. You can try:

- a solid colour- a gradient- scanning something in that you’ve painted- scanning in a texture from the classroom

- Remember to consider what colours are in your colour palate, and the genre and content of your book.

- Of the three trials, select the one that works best and print it out to be your final piece.

Reflection

- Contribute in whole class critique and evaluation

- What setbacks did you come up against and how did you overcome them?

- What could you do to improve your design?

- Explain how you have used 2 elements and 2 principles

The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

Snow White by The Brothers Grimm

The Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series by Ann Brashares

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Charlotte’s Web by EB White

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

Divergent by Veronica Roth