Adult Prize boards

Open publication - Free publishing - More adult prize

Out of all the briefs I think this one has the best outcome, I enjoyed the development process and experimentation with layout and colour pallet. I feel I was able to successfully utilize my illustration skills regarding hand rendered vector images. The time spent on doing this has paid off with what I think is a high quality outcome. I feel the end result works well as a set with a suitable style of outcomes which has great impact and may appeal to a contemporary, discerning, literary readership. I feel that this brief has allowed me to develop skills in working with a set of outcomes for creating images to reflect a narrative and writing style applied to book cover design and further promotion. But above all I can see a line of professionalism and this design perhaps being used in industry.

Printed postcards

love in the time of Cholera
A6



One Hundred years of Solitude
A6

Books in Waterstones

Ok not actually in Waterstones. This is just to demonstrate how they might look in the shop window.
They don't stand out well because the other books in the window are all competing for attention with bright eye catching colours and bold fonts. My designs just get lost and overlooked amongst the rest. However the brief wasn't purely about being attention grabbing in a shop. So to help distinguish them I have desaturated the background of the top photograph.

Book Marks

One hundred years of solitude


Love in the time of Cholera

In Evil hour

Photoshoot of Book set

Complete set printed on matt stock


A2 poster with designs

Box set photoshoot

It is clear in this photograph I should have paid more attention to the alinement of text on the spine. Particularly with 'Love in the time of Cholera' the authors name is printed far too close to the edge.



Once, printed cut and assembled it was a bit of a tight squeeze to fit the books into the box. You can probably tell from the photographs. I should have done a mock up or test one first out of the thick Matt stock. I realize now you have to add a couple of mm's to give room for the thickness of the paper.

On the whole though, I think quite a nice set, the colours photograph well and complement each other.

Photoshoot 100 years of solitude

Photoshoot 'Love in the time of Cholera'

Photoshoot of In Evil Hour

I am particularly glad I chose a grey backdrop for the photo-shoot of this design because it makes the white contrast even more, making the design more visually interesting.

postcard designs for book set

The post cards are designed using only the imagery based on the front of each book. The title and author are typed on the back of each one.

Box set net designs