I have been working on two book designs. One that went really well, and one that did'nt. I think this may be due to too much research on one book that I am stuck on ideas. The first book was on George Orwell's "Animal Farm".
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| ehhhh nooo |
It looks plain, boring and not what I expected. I decided to leave this one and work on another otherwise I won't go back to it.
The second book design is my favourite. I redesigned Richard Adams "Watership Down" after I watched the film. At first I didn't have any ideas apart from rabbits, fields and trees. Then I noticed the rabbits speaks about "The black Rabbit" whenever it comes to death, sort of like the grim reaper in the rabbit world. As the book and film was very dark I wanted to interpreted this without giving much away. This is my final design;
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| very nice |
It looks professional in my opinion, I kept to the minimalism by focusing on large parts of the fur and the "Black Rabbit" thankfully resembles the pupil of the rabbit after showing to some people. The text is slightly annoying me as I use the text installed on illustrator, so i might have a look for more fonts online to see which goes with the style and age (I want to keep the book the same age as it came out but with a modern design).
I think I will fill out the whole page, rather than just a square in future. I'm stuck for ideas for backgrounds and if I fill out the whole page, it will look like a book.
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