Saturday, July 2, 2011

Redesigned Book Cover



I chose one of my favorite books, "A Clockwork Orange". There have been so many editions of this book, I sort of played off of a few of them. The book contains a lot of symbolism, so I chose the to emphasize the gear and the eyeball that a lot of the original covers used to stand for "A Clockwork Orange", that is a human who has been almost changed to barely be human anymore.

The story was supposed to take place in the very near future, so I decided to use the cover to show that modern minimalism that the book conjoured up well (as did the movie). I used the Texture filter to add a slight look of canvas to the cover, and used VERY subtle gradients so that the colors do not just sit there. I also chose a slightly blocky font as this was common in a lot of the original covers.

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