Showing posts with label Book Cover Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Cover Design. Show all posts
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
The Devil's Backbone: Watching the film
Credit- insect trapped in amber
sans serif floating type
beigh/ neutral colour palette- earthy
bed number 12 ( santi's bed)
scared kid
sans serif floating type
beigh/ neutral colour palette- earthy
bed number 12 ( santi's bed)
scared kid
slash in the face
pond
Shadows
civil war
Santi
'tell me where Santi is'
ribbon - bomb
blood floating upwards
Penguin By Designers
Marber intricately analysed what was needed from the layout and designed his grid based on his observations. He was careful to consider that the mystery and crime series style had remained practically unchanged since Edward Young’s typographic designs were first adopted 25 years prior.
As the crime series was one of Penguin’s most popular and recognisable series, he decided to keep the familiar green hue of the covers, but chose a ‘fresher’ shade.
By collating the typographic information and the colophon together within the top third of the page, he allowed for over two thirds of the cover to be used by the illustration, effectively giving the cover artwork the space needed to capture a browser’s attention and sell the book.
Facetti was so inspired by Marber’s design that he also used it for Penguin’s fiction range, and would later apply it again, practically unchanged, to the blue Pelican books. Eventually Marber’s layout became the standard layout for the entire range of Penguin paperbacks.
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Melissa Price
A 12 page book presenting simple facts about the English kings and queens, from William the Conquerer to the present Queen Elizabeth.
Each spread focuses on a particular set of facts about the monarchy: family name, nationality, religion, number of marriages and how their succession came about. The names are colour-coded with the list of facts on each spread. The content was inspired by a children's plastic ruler which had the English kings and queens listed on it as an aide memoir for history students. I loved the simplicity of the list of names, and, having been awful at history at school, I wanted to explore a graphic method for expressing a range of facts about the monarchs to act as prompts to help remember some of the major historical events. The book was hand-screenprinted at East London Printmakers in 8 colours, including two metallics and two fluorescents. It was bound with a white saddle stitch. Only 20 copies were printed.
Monday, 17 October 2011
Friday, 14 October 2011
Thursday, 13 October 2011
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