Year 1 Book Cover Design assignment

Our first year students are currently working on a great brief to create new and interesting cover designs for existing books.

Getting messy with cuts of paper and PVA glue to make a background texture

Watercolours being used to make interesting textures

Initial ideas

Ideas and experiments

A design ready to be taken on screen

Working on layouts for the cover

Editing stenciled imagery on Photoshop

Ink splats and stains being refined on computer

Using Illustrator to re-create a hand-drawn image

A design being used to create a layout design for the cover

Another layout design for the cover being edited

Building the design on screen

3 different layouts for the idea

The design being refined ready to be used.

The aim is to explore and experiment with different hand-made imagery, texture and typography, which they can then use to refine on the computers and build the design for their chosen book jacket.

More to follow...