Graphic Design Methods and Principals Project #2: Book Cover

 

Thomas Mansfield

AVT-311

Professor

09 Sept 2020

Type & Image: Book Covers Process Book

            Ultimately after hearing that we will be making a project based around an object that could be around us in modern day, easily went for a knife as sadly it is a topic item. Originally was going to try to bring up modern day events, but went away from that idea as to not offend people of the class or who could see it online. So the first problem was finding where I wanted to go since the riots was the main jump of idea. On September 8^th 2020, watched the classic movie psycho and saw that class big knife. Ultimately making a book cover that was and now is a murder mystery book with a vague title to entice the imaginary read to grab it and get caught up in the world.

So the research about the movie, similar tropes, as well as color scheme was the next 3 sections to find. Alfred Hitchcock was the big creator of the movie adaptation of the novel originally wrote by Joseph Stefano. Not go exactly into the plot of the movie, but going into many posters, versions, and covers helped cement the ideas.  So colors was the next step and after that was getting a broad idea of similar covers or posters with minimalist designs like psycho stuff.

Composure, refinement, and evaluation all came to keeping this simple. Lead the eyes to specific areas of the cover first with hierarchy and then focus on the ones that would be graphically heavy then text heavy. Then the composition was made by slapping some stuff around, messing with the pantones, and then doing similar designs by restricting myself strictly to the source material used.

After all that, realizing the 2^nd cover made that was mainly a white tile floor needed a boarder for computer viewing to see where things end more clearly which was added in the final product. Only main change made after the fact till critiques happen in the class.